AJC, the global Jewish advocacy organization, welcomes today’s action by the Polish Parliament to remove the criminal penalties provision of the country’s controversial Holocaust responsibility law.
Mayors of Polish cities, attending an AJC Central Europe and City of Warsaw conference on combating hate, have issued a joint statement urging implementation of a policy of “zero tolerance for prejudice, xenophobia and antisemitism.”
AJC is dismayed that Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, just prior to leaving office, recognized a Palestinian state despite his commitment during his tenure not to do so.
Austrian Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz declared at the 2018 AJC Global Forum that the Austrian government viewed both the fight against antisemitism and the security of the state of Israel as part of the country’s Staatsräson, or national interest.