Volodymyr Zelensky has been elected as Ukraine’s first Jewish president, a significant feat in a country with a long history of Jewish persecution and a short memory when it comes to the Holocaust.
The Great Replacement is a conspiracy theory rooted in white supremacist ideology that claims there is an intentional effort, led by Jews, to make whites extinct. It has inspired massacres in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Christchurch, New Zealand, and Buffalo, New York.
When 2019 AJC Global Forum kicks off in Washington D.C. on June 2, there will be newcomers and regulars, spanning generations, areas of interest, and priorities. Meet five very different participants who keep coming back because of the impact it makes.
The results are in from AJC’s first-ever concurrent surveys of Jewish opinion in the United States, Israel, and France — the world’s three largest Jewish communities, comprising the overwhelming majority of world Jewry.
Seeking to eradicate the hateful and divisive rhetoric that has poisoned the nation’s political discourse and spawned acts of violence in houses of worship, AJC has called on Americans to join its Community of Conscience.