Counterterrorism Watch, created by AJC’s Division on Middle East and International Terrorism (DMEIT), is a web-based resource designed to inform and educate professionals and the general public about international terrorism and efforts to contain it. DMEIT, established in 1999, focuses on gathering, interpreting, and disseminating open source intelligence. It is the only department of its kind within the Jewish organizational world.
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Bluma Zuckerbrot-Finkelstein India’s Terrorist Challenges With over one billion citizens living in twenty-eight states and seven union territories, India is the world’s largest democracy and the second most populous nation in the world. As a rapidly growing multiethnic and multireligious democracy in a region beset by extremism, political violence, and terrorism, India finds that its stability has regional and global implications.Read More
Yehudit Barsky Hezbollah After Mugniyeh The recent killing of Imad Fayez Mughniyeh will not preclude Hezbollah from striking again -- and, judging from past experience, the Lebanese-based terrorist organization will eye Diaspora, as well as Israeli, targets. Read More
"After a long period of uneasiness between Europe and Israel, there have been recent signs of renewed Euro-Israeli commitment. But is this really the case?" writes Marta Mucznik, AJC's European Affairs Research Director.
The Presbyterian Church (USA) charged its congregations, members, and associated bodies not to “over-identify” with either party in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
U.S. Jewish Leaders Press Lithuanian Prime Minister to Resolve Property Restitution
Lithuania stands alone as the only country in Central and Eastern Europe to not yet settle the restitution issue, despite negotiations lasting more than six years.
"Twisting Holocaust memory, desecrating cemeteries, ignoring antisemitism and refusing to return communal property — surely this is not the best cultural capital Europe can offer," writes Rabbi Andrew Baker in the Forward.
