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The Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council (MJAC) is deeply troubled by the new Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) assessment of hate crimes in the United States. The Hate Crimes Statistics report shows 7,314 hate crime incidents in 2019, up slightly from the 7,120 incidents reported in 2018. Incidents targeting Jews were up 14 percent compared to last year. While hate crimes against Muslims decreased slightly in 2019, they remain the next largest target of crimes based on religious bias.

In his open, must-read letter to CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour, published by The Times of Israel, AJC CEO David Harris urges her to apologize for analogizing a deadly Holocaust-era tragedy, Kristallnacht, to the current Trump Administration. “You were weaponizing Kristallnacht, instrumentalizing the Holocaust to make your point,” writes Harris, the child of two Holocaust survivors, who asks Amanpour to “do the right thing, apologize for your comment, and issue a clarification.”

AJC Cleveland Presents its 2020 Richard H. Adler Community Leadership Award to Dr. Alex Johnson, President of Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C®). 

American Jewish Committee, the leading global Jewish advocacy organization, warned today that the continuing rise in hate crimes incidents targeting Jews in the United States is a threat to society that demands urgent national attention. While Jews account for less than 2% of the American population, the new FBI Hate Crimes Statistics report found that more than 60% of religious-based hate crimes in 2019 targeted Jews, an increase of 14% over 2018.