“Britain’s decision, the first European country to take this principled step, is itself a condemnation of the ingrained bias against Israel at the UN Human Rights Council,” said AJC CEO David Harris.
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz delivered a historic address today at an AJC Transatlantic Institute (TAI) event, which focused on strengthening EU-Israel relations and Jewish life in Europe.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador swept into office as president of Mexico with great fanfare and big promises. Joining us today to discuss what we can expect from López Obrador’s presidency is Dina Siegel Vann, director of AJC’s Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Institute for Latino and Latin American Affairs.
Unfortunately, we Israelis do not pay sufficient attention to the Jewish Diaspora. I wish to focus on the largest diaspora, American Jewry, which numbers some six million people.
Middle East scholar Kenneth Stein says former President Jimmy Carter had hoped the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty would spark comprehensive peace across the region. The treaty, signed on March 26, 1979 by late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli premier Menachem Begin, was the first such peace pact between Israel and an Arab state.