Last year, Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-MI) invited black and Jewish members of the House to form the Black Jewish Congressional Caucus, which was introduced last June at the 2019 AJC Global Forum.
The AJC Paris study of the analysis of anti-Semitism in France in 2019 was conducted by IFOP, a leading polling firm, in partnership with Fondapol, a major French think tank. They polled 505 French Jews and 1027 French people between October 14 and November 19, 2019.
A historic United Nations report on global antisemitism was published by the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, in late 2019. It is the first-ever stand-alone human rights report dedicated solely to antisemitism. The report documents rising antisemitic violence and hate speech around the world, identifying it as a threat to Jews and as “toxic” to democratic societies.
Leadership in the Lutheran church was “a major force in instilling theological antisemitism in the modern world.” AJC was among the first organizations to confront it.
On January 3, U.S. forces carried out a drone strike near Baghdad International Airport, killing Qasem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force. What does all this mean for America, Israel, the Middle East, and the rest of the world?