Antisemitism is hard to discern in the present xenophobic and anti-immigrant public mood, but Italian Jewry, basing its judgment on bitter past experience, remains wary of the voters’ dramatic switch.
In marking today’s 75th anniversary of the rescue of nearly 50,000 members of the Bulgarian Jewish community during the Holocaust, AJC CEO David Harris, who has visited Bulgaria frequently, looks back at the meaning of this extraordinary action and what followed in the decades since.
An AJC leadership delegation has concluded a visit to London and Paris for a series of intensive conversations with government officials and Jewish community leaders on efforts to fight antisemitism and ensure Jewish community security.
We are experiencing the most serious crisis in Polish-Israeli and Polish-Jewish relations since the collapse of Communism in Poland in 1989. While the Polish Jewish community is at the center of this maelstrom, its voice is not considered enough in the discourse.