At AJC Virtual Global Forum 2021, attendees witnessed a history-making announcement as H.E. Luis Almagro, Secretary-General of the Organization of American States, established the OAS's first Antisemitism Commissioner for Latin America position.
A recent survey revealed that 36% of Germans believe that the U.S. is the greatest threat to their democracy, higher than China and Russia. In a separate survey, 66% of Germans stated they would want Germany to remain neutral in a conflict between the United States and Russia or China. How can America be seen as a greater threat to German democracy than Russia and China? How could public perception sink so low?
May 8th marks the 76th anniversary of the defeat of Germany and its unconditional surrender to the Allied forces. Fortunately, it came 988 years short of Hitler’s prediction of a thousand-year reign, but not soon enough for the tens of millions of victims of Nazism. As the child of two Holocaust survivors, one of whom spent childhood years in Berlin, the anniversary for me is a time for remembrance, reflection, and rededication.
In August 2020, far-right groups brandishing QAnon and neo-Nazi flags rioted on the steps of the German Bundestag. Join AJC Berlin in conversation with the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) to investigate the near mirror image events and the transatlantic far-right networks that threaten the basic tenets of American and European democracies.
President Biden’s recognition of the Armenian Genocide was a groundbreaking event, one that American Jewish Committee had been advocating for over many decades. AJC CEO David Harris explains in his latest oped in The Times of Israel why acknowledging what happened to the Armenian people in 1915 is important, why the Jewish people care so much about historical truth, especially regarding genocide, and why more countries around the world should join those who have called the mass murder of Armenians by its rightful name.