Posts Tagged: AJC
In Speech to Jewish Group, Leader of World’s Largest Muslim Organization Calls for Compassion
The leader of the world’s largest Muslim organization told a leading Jewish group on Sunday that religious people must seek to solve today’s violent conflicts...
Major Jewish Group Petitions Chilean Government to Act Against Rising Antisemitism
The American Jewish Committee has filed a petition to the Chilean government asking it to act against rising antisemitism in the South American country. “Under the...
Leading Jewish Group Criticizes Papal Honors to Antisemitic Polish Cardinal
A major Jewish group expressed its objections on Wednesday to the Vatican’s decision to honor an antisemitic World War II-era cardinal. Cardinal August Hlond was Polish...
Poland and the Jewish World: A Defining Moment
When I went to my first Polish-Jewish encounter -- in Chicago, in the early 1980s -- I was struck by how thin the veneer of relationships was. While...
Major Jewish Group ‘Appalled’ by Russian Bishop’s Blood Libel Accusation
A leading Jewish group registered its disgust on Thursday after a Russian bishop claimed that the Romanov family was killed by Jews in an act...
Netanyahu to Incoming US Jewish University Students: ‘Go Against the Lies, Tell the Truth About Israel’ On Campus
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently urged a group incoming American Jewish university students to "go against the lies" and "tell the truth about Israel" on...
Major US Jewish Organizations on Left and Right Hail Trump’s Israel Visit
American Jewish organizations were in almost unanimous agreement over the success of US President Donald Trump's visit to Israel, a series of statements released on...
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...
Why the AJC Is Going to Poland
I grew up in a home that was hardly pro-Polish. Poland was seen as a country where antisemitism was historically widespread, and -- at times...
Jewish Civil Rights Groups Ignore Member of the Tribe Who Was Discriminated Against
JNS.org -- What if you got fired for observing Passover? “Not possible in 21st-century America,” you confidently reply. What if you sued, and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as...
On College Campuses and Elsewhere, Israel-Haters Excel in Disruption
JNS.org - It has become standard practice among those who hate Israel to accuse the Jewish state’s supporters of suppressing speech. These so-called progressives piously charge...
Major Jewish Groups Bitterly Rebuke UCLA Over Departure of Student Leader Due to BDS Harassment
The heads of major Jewish groups told The Algemeiner on Friday that they were outraged over the handling by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)...
A ‘Dangerous Moment for America, Allies’: Major Jewish Groups Uneasy as US Lifts Economic Sanctions Against Iran (VIDEO)
US and international Jewish organizations responded with trepidation to the US's instantaneous lifting of banking, steel, shipping and other sanctions on Iran on Saturday that came with...
