“Honoring Nadia Murad with the Nobel Peace Prize is an extraordinary recognition of a remarkable young person,” said AJC CEO David Harris, who has met Murad in New York and Berlin.
AJC welcomed the University of Michigan administration decision to bring disciplinary actions against John Cheney-Lippold, the tenured associate professor who refused to write a letter of recommendation for a student applying to study in Israel.
This week on AJC Passport, we’re joined by JTA’s Washington Bureau Chief Ron Kampeas and AJC Director of Interreligious and Intergroup Relations Rabbi Noam Marans to discuss Nikki Haley’s decision to leave her post at the UN and the passage of an AJC-backed hate crimes bill.
“AJC has consistently challenged government actions against immigrants that lack a legal foundation, and which are antithetical to the values of AJC and the United States,” states the AJC brief.