When we incorporate alumni into our leadership councils and caucuses and invite them into our local interreligious dialogues or communities of conscience, they speak out loudly against antisemitism and in favor of Israel’s right to defend itself.
According to the American Jewish Committee, “BDS leadership in fact seeks nothing less than the elimination of Israel as a Jewish state.” What does BDS really want? Why do its supporters seem to be all around us locally, nationally, and internationally. Does it target Jews as well as Israel? And how have Jewish organizations, the broader community, and governments at every level responded to its presence?
In mobilizing all sectors of Texas society to fight antisemitism, it is critical to ensure that memory of the Holocaust is preserved and, importantly, that knowledge about the Nazi-organized murder of 6 million Jews is commonplace.
An American Jewish Committee (AJC) leadership delegation concluded a week of consultations and institutional events in three Arab Gulf capitals, continuing AJC’s 25-year-plus engagement with regional governments and building on the breakthrough 2020 Abraham Accords normalization agreements between Israel and two Gulf states, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.