In Spring 2022, Fried led the 'No Campaign', an effort to educate students at McGill about an antisemitic and misleading referendum presented to SSMU (student government) by Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, an anti-Zionist student group at McGill. While campaigning against the referendum, he discovered lapses in student government processes and campaigned for the university and student government to take action. Fried became a CAMERA Fellow in 2021, serving in the role for two consecutive academic years combatting the spread of anti-Israel propaganda.