A quarter-century after the bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, the president of Argentina has added Hezbollah to a registry of terrorist organizations and has frozen its assets.
In one of the most substantial and far-reaching discussions on antisemitism ever convened by the U.S. government, AJC Chief Policy and Political Affairs Officer Jason Isaacson on Monday joined scholars, senior officials, and policymakers at the Department of Justice to sound the alarm about the rise of anti-Jewish hatred.
On July 18, Argentine and Jewish communities around the world commemorate the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA) building, the center of the Jewish community in Buenos Aires – the deadliest antisemitic attack outside Israel since the Holocaust.
A few days after Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, I joined a group of American Jews and Germans on a visit to the former concentration camp Sachsenhausen. Aside from being a decade or two between the average visiting school group or Red Hat Society outing, we were the only group of Germans and Jews touring the memorial site together.
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.