Tag: American Jewish Committee
AJC poll: Three-quarters of US Jews feel less safe after Oct. 7
More than three-quarters of U.S. Jews report feeling less safe as Jews in the United States after Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in southern Israel, according to the American Jewish Committee’s 2023 survey of...
At diplomatic event in New York, rare consensus of support for Israel
Defending the Jewish state at the United Nations is like being in a lion’s den, as former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon and others have said. On Wednesday, biblical Isaiah references...
Jewish groups sue California school district, alleging antisemitic ethnic-studies curricula
The Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee, Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Potomac Law Group filed a lawsuit against the Santa Ana Unified School District and its education board late on Friday.
The...
Getting down to business: The Abraham Accords Anniversary Delegation
The hope of the Abraham Accords was that its biggest impact would be felt on a people-to-people level. As the third anniversary of the signing of the original pact approaches, a delegation of young...
Dubowitz: $6b ransom to Iran will lead to more terrorism, hostages
Washington reached a deal with Tehran on Thursday to release five Iranian Americans, whom the Islamic Republic detained evidently on trumped-up charges. In exchange for the five being released to house arrest, the United...
In Arabic video, AJC explains Jewish connection to Israel
Knowledge and compassion are “critical tools to break the cycle of perpetual conflict and mutual demonization,” Benjamin Rogers, director of Middle East and North Africa initiatives at the American Jewish Committee, told JNS.
That’s why...
AJC announces effort to assist with federal plan to counter antisemitism
Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), said on Monday that the group would launch a task force to help “ensure that the White House action plan becomes a reality in ways that will...
AJC Global Forum meets to tackle challenges facing the Jewish people
Political heavyweights and prominent journalists discussed key issues affecting Israel and the Jewish people at the opening plenary of the American Jewish Committee’s second AJC Global Forum in Tel Aviv on Sunday evening.
Those issues...
Iranian aid to Russia altered Kyiv-Jerusalem relationship, Ukrainian ambassador says
Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States told a gathering of Jewish media this week that Iran’s partnership with Russia has forced her country and the world to “rethink” how they deal with Iran.
Oksana Markarova...
Antisemitism dramatically undercounted in 2022, AJC report says
Despite well-documented surges in antisemitism in America, new data suggests official numbers dramatically undercount the problem’s scope.
In 2022, more than one-quarter (26%) of U.S. Jews said they were targets of either physical or in-person...