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AJC Los Angeles met with Azerbaijani leaders from the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan, including the Chairman of the community and survivors of the 1992 Khojaly Massacre. All are internally displaced persons (IDPs) who were forced from their homes by Armenian forces in the Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988-1994). They shared their personal stories of both tragedy and resilience and their desire to return home and promote peaceful coexistence between the Azerbaijani and Armenian communities. As AJC Regional President Scott Edelman shared in his opening remarks, AJC “is working to build a safer, more secure future not only for the Jewish people, but for all people.”

“Once again, our fellow citizens in Puerto Rico are in dire need of assistance due to a major natural disaster,” said AJC CEO David Harris. “Our longstanding involvement with the citizens of this American Commonwealth — and our ties with Puerto Rican communities — move us to act with compassion.”

AJC commends South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem for signing an executive order prohibiting state offices from doing business with companies that boycott Israel.

El primer país en apoyar la creación de un Estado Judío en 1947 fue EE.UU. Y quien inmediatamente le siguió los pasos de reconocer al Estado Judío fue una nación centroamericana de 17 millones de personas. Siete décadas después la historia se ha repetido: dos días después de que EE.UU. trasladara oficialmente su embajada a Jerusalem, Guatemala hizo lo mismo.

A historic United Nations report on global antisemitism was published by the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, in late 2019. It is the first-ever stand-alone human rights report dedicated solely to antisemitism. The report documents rising antisemitic violence and hate speech around the world, identifying it as a threat to Jews and as “toxic” to democratic societies.