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AJC Deplores Attack on Chicago Synagogue

February 4 2017

AJC Chicago condemns an attack on the Loop Synagogue, which authorities have labeled a hate crime.

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International Law and the Israel Hamas Conflict - AJC Advocacy Anywhere

November 8 2023

After Hamas fired rockets and invaded southern Israel, some commenters have deliberately spread falsehoods about Israel’s actions and intentions, and others have criticized them in ways that reflect a misunderstanding of Israel’s legal obligations. Join American Jewish Committee (AJC) and Matthew Waxman, adjunct senior fellow for law and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Liviu Librescu Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, to unpack these difficult issues.

Jewish Students are Being Vilified on campus. Will Our Allies Stand Up to Antisemitism?

November 9 2023

Many Jewish students have grown numb in recent years to the demonization of Israel on our campuses and in our social media feeds. But seeing students I engage with every day applaud the Hamas terrorists who slaughtered more than 1,400 people in Israel is sickening.

Global Leaders, Experts Must Reject Surging Antisemitism Worldwide and Affirm Jews’ Equal Rights

The Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights (JBI) has issued a new appeal, Global Leaders, Experts Must Reject Surging Antisemitism Worldwide and Affirm Jews’ Equal Rights, which provides emblematic examples from 25 countries reflecting incidents in which antisemitic hate speech, discrimination, and physical attacks against Jews and Jewish sites have occurred since Hamas’s October 7 attack against Israel. It calls on United Nations leaders, experts, and others to reaffirm that international and political developments never justify antisemitism and to clarify that while criticism of Israel is not per se antisemitic, such expression is condemnable when it reflects, fuels, or incites identity-based hatred of or violence or discrimination against Jews.