The American Jewish Committee and the Foundation for Political Innovation have jointly designed and carried out the survey “Radiography of Anti-Semitism in France”, administered by IFOP.
This week, retired U.S. Ambassador Marc Sievers, Director of American Jewish Committee’s office in Abu Dhabi: The Sidney Lerner Center for Arab-Jewish Understanding, joins us to discuss President Joe Biden's visit to the Middle East on a tour that included Israel, the West Bank, and Saudi Arabia.
Thank you for inviting me to join in this centenary celebration of the Balfour Declaration – a celebration of the practical wisdom of a war-time British Government, of the triumph of historical obligation over colonial expediency, of the long-delayed recognition of a people’s rightful inheritance.
AJC CEO David Harris spoke to Kathimerini, a leading Greek newspaper, about the close Greece-Israel relationship. He stressed that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “is playing a dangerous game throughout the region. That’s why he must face costs or else he will persist.”
The transatlantic partners tend to agree to disagree on how to tackle the Iranian threat. While Europeans and the U.S. still don’t see eye to eye on the merits of the 2015 nuclear deal, both sides recognize the need to contain the regime’s regional aggression and global terror network.