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Last night, AJC LA's ACCESS hosted it's very first in-person Annual Meeting, with Debbie Lechtman, otherwise known as @Rootsmetals on Instagram, as their guest speaker.  This event, “Fighting Antisemitism Online in 2022”, focused on how to better understand how to combat the worlds oldest form of hatred on the worlds newest and, and at times most dangerous, form of communication - social media.

American Jewish Committee CEO Ted Deutch issued this statement today on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the anniversary of when the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp was liberated in 1945.

AJC praised Uruguay for expelling a senior Iranian diplomat suspected of involvement with a bomb placed near Israel’s embassy in Montevideo. No one was hurt and the bomb was defused.

American Jewish Committee has long been nonpartisan and we have cordial and productive relationships with members of both parties. That makes it easier for us to call someone out when they are behaving badly. Kim Crockett is behaving very badly.Crockett’s latest episode of ugliness emerged at the Republican state convention, where a video of hers contained an image of billionaire Jewish philanthropist George Soros — a frequent target of antisemites and conspiracy theorists — as a puppet master manipulating the strings of DFL Secretary of State Steve Simon and election lawyer Marc Elias. Both are also Jewish.

Fifty-five years ago this month, the Six Day War broke out. Without an understanding of what happened in the past, it’s impossible to grasp where we are today — and where we are has profound relevance for the region and the world.