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Anti-Semitism
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Anti-Semitism
is loosely defined as hatred toward Jews and is directed toward the
Jewish religion, Jews as a people, or Israel, the Jewish state. While
anti-Semitism always starts with Jews, it never ends there. The very
fabric of democratic societies is threatened by those who promote hate.
Since
the founding of AJC in 1906, in the aftermath of the Kishinev pogroms
in Russia, we have been using advocacy, diplomacy and education to
combat anti-Semitism in the United States and around the world. AJC
pays particular attention to how institutions – governments,
universities, and media – respond to anti-Semitism. For us, all types
of anti-Semitism – religious, racial, or political– matter.
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Campus
While American universities are more hospitable to Jews and Jewish life than they have ever been, there have been troubling instances, too, particularly around attempts to delegitimize Israel as a nation state and to dehumanize its supporters. Read more... |
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International
AJC has played an integral part in the 56-member nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe conferences on anti-Semitism. We began a pilot project, now taken over by OSCE, to train European police forces on how to combat hate crimes, read press release, and was the moving force behind the effort to have a common definition of anti-Semitism used by monitoring organizations in Europe.
We also were instrumental in the successful move to create a personal representative of the chair of OSCE on combating anti-Semitism, the first time in history a European official has been tasked with such responsibility.
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Ideologies
While our focus is on institutions, we also pay attention to the ideologies promoted by individuals and movements which promote anti-Semitism today or are likely to do so tomorrow. AJC's ground breaking research and programs have explored topics and people, including Afrocentrism, anti-Zionism, bigotry on campus, Patrick Buchanan, the Christian Identity movement, Crown Heights, David Duke, John Demjanjuk, Louis Farrakhan, hate and the Internet, hate on talk radio, Holocaust denial, Leonard Jeffries, the Militia Movement, politics and bigotry, skinheads, and the World Church of the Creator. Our publications on these issues are available HERE. |
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Anti-Zionism
AJC has consistently combated attempts to portray Israel by standards to which no other country is subjected, or to deny Jews the same right of national self-determination enjoyed by other peoples. We were instrumental in organizing the effort to overturn the infamous 1975 UN General Assembly Resolution which had equated Zionism with racism. And in 2008 we launched Z Word, an editorially independent online journal which seeks to revise and refine the contemporary debate about Zionism. www.z-word.com |
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