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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room at the White House Hanukkah celebration on Dec. 1, 2021. In a new survey, Biden received a 47% approval rating and 34% disapproval rating from U.S. Jews on his responses to antisemitism. Photo by Dmitriy Shapiro.

Antisemitism dramatically undercounted in 2022, AJC report says

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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...
Jewish twins were kept alive to be used in Dr. Josef Mengele's medical experiments. These children from Auschwitz were liberated by the Red Army in January 1945. Credit: USHMM/Belarusian State Archive of Documentary Film and Photography.

AJC survey: Half of Americans don’t know how many Jews died in the Holocaust

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Only 53% of Americans over the age of 18 answered correctly that approximately six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, according to an American Jewish Committee public opinion survey released ahead of International...

Ted Deutch brings bipartisan spirit from Congress to the Jewish world

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In an era when Israel and other issues of concern to the Jewish community are often political football, former Democratic Congressman from Florida Ted Deutch affirmed the role of the American Jewish Committee, where...
The downtown center of Nablus, named as one of the oldest cities in the world, in the Palestinian Authority, Nov. 15, 2016. Photo by Sebi Berens/Flash90.

AJC releases latest Arabic-language video on explaining, fighting anti-Semitism

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The American Jewish Committee released on Tuesday the eighth and latest in its series of Arabic-language online videos the organization said is aimed at raising awareness in the Arab world about the scourge of Jew-hatred. “What is...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers remarks to the press at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 2, 2021. Credit: State Department Photo by Freddie Everett.

Blinken praises international advocacy in virtual address at AJC Global Forum

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Praising its global leadership on important foreign-policy issues like democracy and anti-Semitism, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke by video to the American Jewish Committee’s annual Global Forum on Monday. Blinken praised the committee’s...
Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.). Photo by Dmitriy Shapiro.

Rep. Ted Deutch to become next head of the American Jewish Committee

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The American Jewish Committee announced on Monday that U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) will succeed David Harris as the organization’s CEO. “I have worked closely with AJC throughout my tenure in Congress and I am...
A Jewish man in Marseille, France. Credit: ChameleonsEye/Shutterstock.

Nearly half of French Jews hide religious symbols, finds AJC study on anti-Semitism

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An increasing number of French Jews believe that anti-Semitism is widespread in their country, according to a new survey conducted by the American Jewish Committee. According to the study, conducted in late 2021, 85 percent...
The Virginia State Capitol. Credit: Zack Frank/Shutterstock.

Ten US states move to recognize Holocaust Remembrance Day, adopt IHRA definition of anti-Semitism

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In recent weeks, 10 states have advanced a proclamation or executive orders acknowledging International Holocaust Remembrance Day with each proclamation officially recognizing the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism. The states that have already...
A woman holds a sign opposing anti-Semitism at a rally. Credit: AndriiKoval/Shutterstock.

American Jewish Committee gives $50,000 to initiatives for battling anti-Semitism

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The American Jewish Committee announced the five winners of its new “Disrupt Antisemitism” initiative. A panel comprised of AJC staff members, journalists and business leaders reviewed nearly 70 submissions, and on Monday revealed the five projects that...
Anti-Semitic graffiti. Credit: Yonderboy/Wikimedia Commons.

American Jews are mostly secure, scared and deeply partisan

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If ever there was a time for an opinion survey that would measure “The State of Anti-Semitism in America,” this is just such a moment. Concerns about a rising tide of Jew-hatred seem to...