Redoubling efforts to identify concrete measures to effectively confront this menace and to begin to reduce the numbers of antisemitic incidents must be a joint and urgent US-Europe priority.
The college council at Pitzer College, a private liberal arts school in California, voted to take away the opportunity for students to study together with Jewish and Arab Israelis at the University of Haifa. The college president vetoed the effort, which stems from the anti-Israel BDS movement.
On the afternoon of March 17, 1992, Israel’s embassy in Argentina was reduced to rubble by a blast that killed 29 people – four Israelis and 25 Argentinians – and injured nearly 250. A group tied to Hezbollah, a proxy for Iran, claimed responsibility.
At AJC Global Forum, attendees are introduced to tales of inspiration and profiles of tremendous courage when they meet recipients of the AJC Moral Courage Award.
Last year, Mayor Pete Buttigieg spoke at length with AJC Passport podcast host Seffi Kogen about the vital relationship between the United States and Israel and the danger of making support for the Jewish state a partisan issue.