Unlike in other European countries, Jews in Ukraine generally do not face acts of violence or public condemnations of Israel. But traditional stereotypes of Jews persist.
From the children ruthlessly gunned down at a Jewish school in Toulouse in 2012 to the savage stabbing of an elderly Holocaust survivor in Paris in 2018, it is hardly a shock that a majority of French Jews and the general public believe that anti-Jewish hatred is on the rise.
In late November 2020, Ambassador Dennis Ross and Jason Isaacson, AJC Chief Policy and Political Affairs Officer, participated in a joint AJC St. Louis/Jewish Federation of St. Louis post-election conversation to discuss critical questions for the future of American foreign policy.
Join us as Miss Iraq Sarah Idan returns to the virtual AJC stage at the Dr. Aaron (z”l) and Ruth M. Bernstein Distinguished Lecture Series, for a wide-ranging conversation on the changing Middle East, her passion and commitment to building bridges among Muslims and Jews, and much more.
Join James McAuley, Paris correspondent for The Washington Post, and Thomas Chatterton Williams, the author of a memoir, Losing My Cool and Self-Portrait in Black and White, for a spirited debate on race, identity, and the fight against radical Islam.