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News and Analysis from AJC CEO David Harris

AJC CEO David Harris has written hundreds of articles, op-eds, letters, and reviews in leading media outlets. He is a regular contributor to The Times of Israel and other international publications. He also frequently offers context on AJC’s priority issues in television interviews and other forums. Featured here is a selection of recent news and analysis by David Harris.

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Who Needs “Denazification”?
March 8, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin justified his current invasion of Ukraine by asserting the country needed to be denazified. It was a rather odd assertion, to say the least. Ukraine is led by a proud, democratically-elected Jew, Volodymyr Zelensky, chosen by nearly three-quarters of the voters in 2019. Meanwhile, Ukrainian Jews were enjoying a vibrant religious and communal life until the Russian assault, and the government had adopted one of the toughest measures anywhere against antisemitism.
Ironically, this was a perfect example of “the pot calling the kettle black.” Indeed, it was Putin’s regime drawing from the Nazi playbook, not Ukraine.
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Putin’s Act Of War: How We Got Here And What To Do
February 25, 2022
With the brazen Russian invasion of Ukraine, it is important to try to understand how this happened and how to respond. This act of war didn’t occur in a vacuum. Russian President Vladimir Putin had said as early as 2005 that the “collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.”
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AJC CEO David Harris at Ukrainian Congress Committee of America Press Conference
February 25, 2022
AJC CEO David Harris called out Russia’s brazen act of war against Ukraine and reiterated American Jewish Committee’s long standing commitment to an independent Ukraine.
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Ukraine and the Meaning of Israel in 2022
February 21, 2022
There are as many as 300,000 Jews living in Ukraine today. Whatever happens in the weeks and months ahead, they know they don’t have to face the prospect of homelessness. And that’s because, thankfully, Israel is a reality.
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Refugees, Rights And Peace In The Middle East
February 18, 2022
AJC CEO David Harris, responding to a Wall Street Journal essay by Israeli historian Benny Morris, points out that the mission of UNRWA, set up in 1949, made no reference to refugee resettlement, and its definition of a Palestinian refugee included future generations without any time limit. Question is why Unrwa is not under the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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Amnesty International Claim That Israel Is An Apartheid State Is Recklessly Ill-Informed
February 2, 2022
The fundamental problem with the Amnesty International report is that it is disconnected from reality. Israel has nothing to do with apartheid, and apartheid has nothing to do with Israel.
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Holocaust Remembrance Day – Why We Must Never Forget
January 27, 2022
January 27 has been designated by the United Nations as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Holocaust defies imagination. Its aim was the Endlösung, or Final Solution, of the Jewish people. In pursuit of this goal, a new alphabet of genocide was created — from A for Auschwitz to Z for Zyklon-b, the nerve gas used in the gas chambers. Every Jew was a target, including 1.5 million children. The Jews were pursued for one reason— they were Jews and, according to Adolf Hitler’s demented worldview, all Jews had to be eliminated. Seventy-seven years after the war’s end, why should these events still matter?
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We Stand With Ukraine
January 24, 2022
American Jewish Committee David Harris remarks on the Ukraine crisis.
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Why Germany’s Iran Policy is Dangerous
November 16, 2021
In his latest interview with Germany’s BILD, the most-read newspaper in Europe, AJC CEO David Harris discusses Germany-Iran ties, Germany-Israel relations, COVID-19 conspiracy theories, Holocaust relativization and other current issues.
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Time to Affirm Jewish Pride
August 3, 2021
Surveys reveal a disturbingly large number of American Jews who feel disconnected from their Jewish identity. How painfully sad! In response, let me share the essence of what being Jewish means to me.
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An Open Letter to Ban Ki-moon
July 24, 2021
As United Nations secretary-general, you said more than once you were a friend of Israel. But then I read your oped in the Financial Times on June 29th. Could this really be the same Ban Ki-moon writing such a one-sided assault on Israel, raising questions about whether you truly are a friend or, still worse, if you are even committed today to Israel’s very existence.
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To Antisemites, a Jew is a Jew is a Jew
July 19, 2021
All Jews ignore at their peril rising antisemitism.
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Ilhan Omar Has a Problem With Jews
July 1, 2021
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has a Jewish problem. Despite her repeated denials and the rush to circle the wagons from some left-wing Jews, there's an undeniable pattern.
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Where's The Outrage?
June 26, 2021
There’s an entire global industry dedicated to vilifying and isolating Israel, the world’s only Jewish-majority nation. It’s time to wake up and take careful notice. And it’s time, yes, to unleash the outrage and act. The stakes couldn’t be higher.
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Letter From A Forgotten Jew
June 22, 2021
AJC CEO David Harris’ "Letter from a Forgotten Jew" revisits an often-forgotten history of Jewish refugees from the Arab world.
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A Jewish Call to Action: Ten Ways to Fight Back
June 16, 2021
Seemingly overnight, anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, and antisemitic incidents are being reported near and far. Many American Jews, who not so long ago thought these were threats faced by Jews elsewhere in the world but not here at home, are suddenly waking up to new realities.
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An Open Letter to Nicholas Kristof
June 4, 2021
Nicholas Kristof, the well-known New York Times columnist, wrote a piece this week entitled “Were My Criticisms of Israel Fair?” As he put it, he experienced “pushback from readers” who questioned his earlier thoughts on “the recent Gaza war.” This column was a response to those readers. I have considerable respect for Kristof, although I don’t always agree with his views on Israel. In this case, I thought his argument fell short in several important ways.
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Hamas Then, Hamas Now
June 1, 2021
It was exactly 20 years ago. My wife and I were attending a Shabbat dinner in Madrid on June 1st when someone gave us the news. A suicide bomber had struck a seaside discotheque, the Dolphinarium, in Tel Aviv. There were reportedly many casualties. It seems there’s no more understanding or, worse, concern among many today about what Hamas actually is than there was that unforgettable Friday evening in 2001.
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15 Israel-related Whoppers
May 22, 2021
As Hamas fired deadly missiles at Israel for 11 straight days, Israel’s critics fired one verbal salvo after another. Unable or unwilling to distinguish between a terrorist organization, Hamas, seeking Israel’s destruction, and a democratic country trying to deny the group’s wish, they went for the jugular. Here are 15 of the most memorably outrageous accusations.
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Hamas-ruled Gaza: No Easy Answers
May 20, 2021
The most recent round of conflict between Hamas and Israel did not come out of nowhere. Rather, there is historical and contemporary context.
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Responding to Senator Bernie Sanders
May 15, 2021
In the The New York Times (May 14), U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders wrote an essay entitled “The U.S. Must Support an Evenhanded Approach in the Middle East” (and, unusually, 24 hours later, retitled “The U.S. Must Stop Being an Apologist for the Netanyahu Government”). Whatever the title, the thrust of the senator’s comments remains exactly the same.
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An Open Letter to Trevor Noah
May 13, 2021
I just watched your 10-minute monologue on the Israeli-Hamas conflict for your popular television program “The Daily Show” (May 11). Frankly, it wasn’t easy viewing. In fact, I began talking back to the screen, but, obviously, to no avail, so I chose instead to write you this open letter.
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Israel and Gaza: Moral Clarity, Moral Fog
May 11, 2021
Hamas has territorial ambitions on Israel. In fact, that's putting it mildly: It would like to replace Israel in its entirety with a Muslim Brotherhood-ruled, Sharia-based state. Israel has no territorial ambitions on Hamas-ruled Gaza. To the contrary, Israel left it totally in 2005 to govern itself, something previous rulers, including Egypt and Ottoman Turkey, never remotely did. Israel hoped never to return.
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For These Reasons, Memory Is So Important
May 8, 2021
May 8th marks the 76th anniversary of the defeat of Germany and its unconditional surrender to the Allied forces. Fortunately, it came 988 years short of Hitler’s prediction of a thousand-year reign, but not soon enough for the tens of millions of victims of Nazism. As the child of two Holocaust survivors, one of whom spent childhood years in Berlin, the anniversary for me is a time for remembrance, reflection, and rededication.
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Why The Armenian Genocide Matters Today
April 26, 2021
President Biden’s recognition of the Armenian Genocide was a groundbreaking event, one that American Jewish Committee had been advocating for over many decades. AJC CEO David Harris explains in his latest oped in The Times of Israel why acknowledging what happened to the Armenian people in 1915 is important, why the Jewish people care so much about historical truth, especially regarding genocide, and why more countries around the world should join those who have called the mass murder of Armenians by its rightful name.
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Antisemitism and Four Travesties of Justice
April 22, 2021
Four years after the murder in Paris of Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old French Jew, mother, and doctor, the case is back in the news in France. The French high court ruled this month that the perpetrator, Kobili Traoré, could not stand trial, even though no one contested that he had brutally beaten his victim and thrown her out a third-floor window, while declaring “Allahu akbar.”
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The Remarkable Trajectory of Greece-Israel Ties
April 19, 2021
Recent developments underscore the remarkable trajectory of ties between Greece and Israel.
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Asians And Jews, Standing United
April 14, 2021
Within a matter of days, two violent hate crimes targeting Asian Americans and Jews occurred in broad daylight on the streets of New York. If these were stand-alone incidents, they would be worrisome enough. But they are not. They are indicative of larger trends in America today, and their sources are multiple. Hate and division are on the rise, and two of the principal targets are Asian-Americans and Jewish Americans.
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Israel at 73
April 11, 2021
Modern Israel celebrates its 73rd birthday this week. Let me put my cards on the table. I’m not dispassionate when it comes to the country. It is an unparalleled tale of tenacity and determination, of courage and renewal.
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Iran Nuclear Talks: 2021 Is Not 2015
February 23, 2021
Resuming contacts with Iran has become an early foreign policy priority for the Biden administration. American Jewish Committee (AJC) CEO David Harris, a long-time observer of the Iran issue, offers six recommendations to the Biden Administration for any future negotiations with the Iranian regime.

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Combating Antisemitism: We Need Swivel-Headed Jews
February 3, 2021
Those who genuinely care about antisemitism must open their eyes wide and be swivel-headed – and not allow partisan political thinking to narrow the field of vision and sense of outrage.
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Poland and Jews: Coauthors of History?
February 3, 2021
I am not naive about the complex history of Polish-Jewish relations, or the accusations emanating from both sides. Yet I believe, as the son of parents who suffered at the hands of both Berlin and Moscow, that what we share in common far exceeds what divides us. And those commonalities are profoundly important in our contemporary world.
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Israel, Palestinians, And COVID Vaccines: A Reality Check
January 25, 2021
It seemed too good to be true. Finally, here was a story about Israel —the world leader in vaccinating its entire population, in all its rich diversity, against COVID — that the media might present in positive terms.
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High Time to Stop Treating Israel Differently
December 28, 2020
The recent spate of annual anti-Israel resolutions at the UN is a telling reminder that Israel is treated according to a totally different standard than all other countries in the international system. Of course, Israel deserves attention and scrutiny, as does every other nation. But it also merits equal treatment – nothing more, nothing less.
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“Shwaya, Shwaya” — Slowly, Slowly
December 20, 2020
Whatever one’s view on the Trump era, his administration made notable headway in the Middle East, writes AJC CEO David Harris in his new Times of Israel blog.

Facilitating historic agreements between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, taking a tougher approach regarding Iran and its malign behavior, moving the U.S. Embassy to its rightful place in Jerusalem, and messaging the Palestinians that time is not necessarily on their side if they continue to reject two-state deals, are significant developments that the incoming Biden administration should consider in thinking about the region as it is today.
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Europe Can’t Fight Antisemitism While Ignoring Threats To Israel
December 14, 2020
I write as a friend, who has said more than once that the EU is the single most ambitious and successful peace project in modern history. But if the EU is serious about tackling antisemitism and preserving historical memory of the Holocaust, it cannot neglect, minimize or wish away threats to the existence of Israel, the world’s lone Jewish-majority country and home to nearly 7 million Jews.
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The Trump Years Changed International Lines Of Conflict
December 8, 2020
The next four years will be informed by the pre-Trump era, but no, not entirely, as the world does not stand still. What is certain is that the rhetoric will change and Washington’s first instinct will be to seek European partners.
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An Open Letter to Christiane Amanpour
November 16, 2020
In his open, must-read letter to CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour, published by The Times of Israel, AJC CEO David Harris urges her to apologize for analogizing a deadly Holocaust-era tragedy, Kristallnacht, to the current Trump Administration. “You were weaponizing Kristallnacht, instrumentalizing the Holocaust to make your point,” writes Harris, the child of two Holocaust survivors, who asks Amanpour to “do the right thing, apologize for your comment, and issue a clarification.”
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Europe Must Unconditionally Defend Its Values
November 4, 2020
Die Welt, one of Germany’s most influential national newspapers, asked AJC CEO David Harris to write a piece about the latest deadly Islamist terror attacks in Paris, Nice, and Vienna. Harris assesses the challenges facing France and Austria, and other European countries, and offers ten policy recommendations for what governments should do to counter the jihadist threat and address integration challenges.
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An Israeli Success Story
September 7, 2020
In the past decade, a number of pundits talked about Israel’s growing isolation under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. To the contrary, I have repeatedly said that Israel’s diplomatic position globally has been on the upswing.
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The Abuse of History
August 30, 2020
Whatever one’s thoughts about politics today, America is not lurching towards Nazism or Bolshevism. To suggest otherwise is to misunderstand, at a fundamental level, the nature of these totalitarian ideologies and their legacies.
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Europe Must Put Aside Its Outdated Thinking
August 17, 2020
Europe has much to offer, most especially its remarkable experience of postwar peace-building and integration that today is the EU. It could perhaps one day serve as a model for other regions with a long history of conflict and animosity. But that won’t happen unless Europe sheds some of its archaic thinking about the Middle East, acknowledges and embraces the new dynamics at work as reflected in the UAE-Israel deal (and others to follow?), takes a fresh look at its own complex relationship with Israel, and ends its “low expectations” policy towards the Palestinians.
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A Friendship Against All Odds
June 14, 2020
In the wake of the unprecedented tragedy of the Holocaust, it was anything but obvious that a Jewish group would seek to engage postwar Germany. But that’s exactly what American Jewish Committee (AJC), alone among global Jewish organizations, did.
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Why History Still Matters: The 1967 Six-Day War
June 4, 2020
Without an understanding of what happened in the past, it’s impossible to grasp where we are today — and where we are has profound relevance for the region and the world. Fifty-three years ago this week, the Six-Day War broke out.
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A Leader’s Leader In A Time of Crisis: Winston Churchill
May 18, 2020
In these times of profound uncertainty, triggered by the war against the pandemic, one comment keeps coming up in my world: “Where’s Winston Churchill now that we need him?”
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Dishonoring World War II Memory
May 7, 2020
As the world commemorates the Allied victory and recalls the war’s horrors, some are invoking the language of the Nazi era in response to COVID-19 restrictions. How appallingly inappropriate and insensitive!
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COVID-19, Conspiracy Theories and Antisemitism
May 6, 2020
It is a story that dates back centuries: A crisis occurs and conspiracy theories emerge to offer one-size-fits-all explanations. More often than not, Jews are implicated. So, too, has it been during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A Letter from CEO David Harris to the AJC Community
March 12, 2020
AJC CEO David Harris wrote a letter to the AJC community amid the unfolding public health crisis caused by the Coronavirus COVID-19.
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How Auschwitz Has United Muslims and Jews
January 28, 2020
On January 23, we stood together with united resolve in the face of history’s greatest horror, the Holocaust, at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp where more than 1 million Jews perished. Never Again. Not for Jews. Not for Muslims. Not for any of God’s children.
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MSNBC Interview: AJC CEO David Harris on Rising Antisemitism
December 30, 2019
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How to Respond to the Anti-Semitic Attack in Monsey, N.Y.
December 30, 2019
In the wake of the horrific knife attack on Saturday during a Hanukkah celebration in Monsey, N.Y., and following a recent spate of other anti-Semitic assaults in New York City and elsewhere in the United States, we must ask and answer two key questions: “Why now?” and “What can be done to stop such incidents?”
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A Spotlight on Trump and Antisemitism
December 12, 2019
AJC CEO David Harris responds in a letter to the editor to New York Times editorial on President Trump's executive order on campus antisemitism.
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Europe: Do the Right Thing on Hezbollah
October 13, 2019
We have the remarkable situation that the U.S., Canada, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, the Arab League, and the GCC, joined most recently by Argentina and the United Kingdom, all agree on the true nature of Hezbollah, yet the EU stands oddly apart.
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Is World War II History Still Relevant?
September 2, 2019
As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, when German forces invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, is the history still relevant? Does it have contemporary meaning? Or is it destined to fade away, as the wartime generation of soldiers, eyewitnesses, and survivors reaches the twilight of their lives?
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Give Greece’s New Leader a Chance
August 8, 2019
David Harris, CEO of AJC, and Endy Zemenides, executive director of the Hellenic American Leadership Council, respond to a New York Times op-ed.

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A Modern-Day Jewish Exodus Story
August 4, 2019
In the early and mid-1980s, I saw up close some of the remarkable Israeli efforts, supported by the United States government and a few American Jewish groups, on behalf of Ethiopian Jews.
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And What We Can Learn From It Today
Why History Still Matters: The 1967 Six-Day War
June 5, 2019
Fifty-one years ago this week, the Six-Day War broke out. While some wars fade into obscurity, this one remains as relevant today as in 1967. Many of its core issues remain unresolved.
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Michelle Alexander’s Column In NY Times Hits New Low
January 20, 2019
Reading Michelle Alexander’s column, “Time to Break the Silence on Palestine,” in The New York Times (Jan. 20) isn’t for the faint of heart. So many questions swirl around it that it’s hard to know where to begin.
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Why Anti-Zionism is Malign
December 12, 2018
AJC CEO David Harris responds to Michelle Goldberg column on antisemitism and anti-Zionism.
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How Many Wake-up Calls on Antisemitism Does Europe Need?
November 29, 2018
The new CNN survey of attitudes towards Jews in seven countries – Austria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Poland, and Sweden – raises profound concerns. Jews are an infinitesimal percentage of Europe’s population, but continue to play an outsized role in the European imagination.
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October 22, 2018
AJC CEO David Harris writes about his mother, Nelly Harris, who passed away at age 95.
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20 Years of American Jewish Committee in Berlin - A Bulwark Against Extremism
October 11, 2018
As we celebrate the first 20 years of the pioneering AJC Berlin office, we are fully cognizant that there remains much to be done. Fortunately, history has evolved and we are not alone. Our many German partners give us the confidence to believe that, whatever the difficulties, we will overcome them together.
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Saving the Transatlantic Partnership
September 24, 2018
In an op-ed published by The Hill, AJC CEO David Harris shows the importance of the transatlantic relationship.
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Why Are Palestinian Refugees Different From All Other Refugees?
August 30, 2018
News reports suggest the U.S. administration is considering a historic decision to redefine who is and is not a Palestinian “refugee.” I hope the reports are true. A change is long overdue and could actually help the search for peace long-term.
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Without America, I Wouldn’t Be Here
July 30, 2018
For my family, America meant, quite literally, rescue, salvation, and rebirth. Nothing less.
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Germany Must Be Firm
July 25, 2018
Europe has joined America as a migrant-receiving space, and as recent events have shown, immigration can be explosive unless properly handled. The American example, as well as my own family experience, offers some possible guidelines.
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The IOI — “If Only Israel” — Syndrome
July 17, 2018
IOI is the misguided notion, peddled in the name of Israel's “best interests” by some in the diplomatic, academic, and media worlds, that if only Israel did this or that, peace with the Palestinians would be at hand.
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My Late Father: The Greatest Generation Up Close
June 25, 2018
Twenty years ago this week, my father passed away.
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Hamas: Not Exactly a “Peace and Love” Enterprise
May 19, 2018
Try as I might, there are some things I just don’t get.
One of them is the failure by many – in political circles, the media, and even segments of the Jewish community – to understand Israel’s unenviable security situation on its border with Gaza.
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May 14, 2018: An Historic Day
May 14, 2018: An Historic Day
May 12, 2018
This day will be remembered, above all, for another celebration – the transfer of the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to its rightful place in Jerusalem. I am in Israel’s capital city to join in the festivities and express appreciation, on behalf of the nonpartisan American Jewish Committee (AJC), to the Trump administration for its bold decision.
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Israel at 70
April 15, 2018
Israel celebrates its 70th anniversary this month. Let me put my cards on the table — I’m not dispassionate when it comes to Israel.
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Israel Versus Hamas: The Case for Moral Clarity
April 10, 2018
The difference between Hamas and Israel couldn’t be greater, yet you wouldn’t know it when listening to some observers.
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Polish-Jewish Relations: A Case Study in What Can Go Wrong
Polish-Jewish Relations: A Case Study in What Can Go Wrong
February 2, 2018
One day, I fear, what is currently happening in Polish-Israeli and Polish-Jewish relations will become a case study for universities and diplomatic academies around the world in how an outwardly strong partnership can unravel practically overnight.
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Charting a Path Forward
Poland and the Jewish World: A Defining Moment
January 28, 2018
For those of us, and I include the American Jewish Committee (AJC) centrally here, who have struggled to write a bright new chapter in Polish-Jewish relations, this is a key moment. We dare not lose the momentum gained in recent years.
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Why Recognition Builds Barriers Instead of Bridges
An Open Letter to Karl Erjavec, Foreign Minister of Slovenia
January 27, 2018
You are on record as calling for your country to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state as soon as possible.
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Why The World Holds Israel to a Different Standard
Shame: 10 Ways Israel Is Treated Differently
January 4, 2018
The recent focus on the Jerusalem issue is a telling reminder that Israel is treated according to a totally different standard than other countries in the international system.
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The History of the Conflict Can't Be Ignored
Ten Basic Facts about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
December 25, 2017
In all the discussion about this decades-long conflict and the quest for a solution, some basic facts are too often missing, neglected, downplayed, or skewed.
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A 30th Anniversary, Soviet Jews, and the Making of History
November 29, 2017
On December 6, 1987, 30 years ago, more than 250,000 people gathered in Washington to call on the Kremlin to open the gates and let Soviet Jews emigrate.
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