AJC praised yesterday’s passage by the Senate Appropriations Committee of the Combating BDS Act of 2016 as an amendment to the State and Foreign Operations (SFOPS) spending bill.
AJC expressed disappointment with the U.S. Supreme Court’s 4-4 decision in Texas v. U.S., which has the effect of blocking indefinitely the implementation of President Obama’s executive action extending deportation protection to as many as five million undocumented immigrants.
AJC praised the announcement of a peace accord between the Colombian government and the FARC that could end decades of violence that have left more than 220,000 dead and millions displaced.
AJC, an organization that has spent decades seeking to advance Arab-Israeli peace, decried Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s incendiary address against Israel before the European Parliament, as well as his refusal to meet with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in Brussels.