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More than 40 Jewish and non-Jewish elected officials, leaders, and organizations from across the EU joined American Jewish Committee (AJC) in signing a letter urging European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President Antonio Costa, and other EU Council members to prioritize combating antisemitism. The letter calls for this issue to be central to the agenda during the European Council Meetings on December 19 and highlights the need for a holistic response as a key priority for the incoming European Commission.

American Jewish Committee (AJC) CEO Ted Deutch brought a clear message to government officials across Western Europe last week: safety for Jews in Europe must be a priority.

Alongside AJC President Michael Tichnor, AJC Europe Managing Director Simone Rodan-Benzaquen, Transatlantic Institute Director Daniel Schwammenthal, Deputy Director for AJC Europe Julie Decroix, and AJC Paris Director Anne-Sophie Sebban-Bécache, Deutch urged government leaders and elected officials in the major capitals of London, Paris, and Amsterdam to take concrete action now to combat antisemitism and safeguard their Jewish communities.

Leaders and activists within the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) have waged an aggressive campaign that has encouraged K-12 teachers to become pro-Palestinian activists and bring anti-Israel propaganda into their classrooms, according to a report from American Jewish Committee (AJC) New England.

AJC New England has prepared a comprehensive report that details a year-long series of initiatives, under the auspices of the Massachusetts Teachers Association’s (MTA), that presented K-12 teachers with a one-sided, ideologically guided understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that they were encouraged to bring to their students. To learn more, read on.

Details efforts by the MTA that threaten to politicize K-12 classrooms. A series of ideologically guided initiatives have propagated a politicized and overtly anti-Israel agenda that raises grave concerns for the Jewish community, and for all people concerned with protecting the integrity of our schools.