This piece focuses on votes at the UN General Assembly. Later pieces in this series will cover African voting at UNESCO and the UN Human Rights Council. Read the first in the series for an overview of Israel-Africa ties.
The decision to drop charges against Pastor Brunson and let him go home was strictly a judicial determination, says the Turkish government, but anyone familiar with Turkish President Erdogan's efforts in recent years to bend the judges to his party's will is entitled to accept this elegant claim cum grano salis, indeed, with a larger than usual grain of salt.
This week on AJC Passport, we’re joined by Brookings Institution Visiting Fellow Hady Amr to discuss the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and AJC Berlin Ramer Institute Director Deidre Berger to discuss Chancellor Merkel’s recent visit to Israel and of the challenges of extremism in Germany.