Posts Tagged: AJC Israel
Germany and the Jews: Hope That People Can Change
In the wake of the unprecedented tragedy of the Holocaust, it was anything but obvious that a Jewish group would seek to engage post-war Germany....
Jews Need Trifocal Lenses to Confront Antisemitism
For close to two decades, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) has been blowing the whistle on the rising tide of antisemitism. When asked about the source...
American Jewish Committee Will Not Join Lutherans in Asking US to Pay Palestinian Debts
JNS.org - Lutheran church leaders are again asking the US government to pay some of the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) outstanding bills. But, in a reversal of past...
American Jewish Committee Lobbied US to Cover Palestinian Authority’s Unpaid Bills
JNS.org - Amid growing Congressional concern about the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) misuse of US financial aid, a major mainstream American Jewish organization has been quietly lobbying...
5 Reasons the Paris ‘Peace’ Conference Failed
As I said repeatedly in the build-up to Sunday's gathering in Paris of representatives of 70 countries to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian issue, the AJC has long...
What Does The American Jewish Committee Do?
The American Jewish Committee recently financed a study - after a series of seminars - that, according to their website, found that "Three distinct groups in...
The Human Rights Council’s Alternate Reality Show
The 47-member United Nations Human Rights Council, based in Geneva, works "for the promotion and protection of all human rights around the globe." That's what...
Black-and-White Boycotts Defy a Technicolor Middle East
The world is never black and white, and it is this binary, zero-sum thinking that perpetuates the Israeli-Palestinian impasse in the Middle East. It's been weeks...
Critics Should Give the Peace Process a Chance
There's no shortage of cynicism and skepticism about the restarted, U.S.-facilitated Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The questions come fast and furious: Why, of all times, now, when the...
