World Jewish Congress and Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) announced on Tuesday the re-establishment of the International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians to respond to the global rise in anti-Semitism.
The newly relaunched ICJP will convene for its first consultation this spring in a lead-up to the World Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly on May 25.
A global network of Jewish legislators, government ministers and other elected officials, the ICJP “aims to promote dialogue and collaboration between Jewish parliamentarians; to support the principles of democracy, the cause of human rights, and the rule of law; and to combat racism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, terrorism and Holocaust denial by those means available to legislators and government ministers.”
Rosen, the founding co-chair of the Senate Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism, agreed to lead ICJP at the request of World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder.
Lauder, former U.S. Ambassador to Austria from 1986-87, said that “as we now witness an era of unfettered conspiracy myths, pervasive anti-Semitism and xenophobia, a horribly disturbing recurrence of Holocaust denial and rising authoritarianism, the ICJP has a powerful role to play in serving as an incubator and accelerator of best practices to counter these phenomena.”