“Honoring Nadia Murad with the Nobel Peace Prize is an extraordinary recognition of a remarkable young person,” said AJC CEO David Harris, who has met Murad in New York and Berlin.
AJC welcomed the University of Michigan administration decision to bring disciplinary actions against John Cheney-Lippold, the tenured associate professor who refused to write a letter of recommendation for a student applying to study in Israel.
The purpose of this conflict of interest policy is to protect American Jewish Committee by ensuring that all employees abide by AJC’s policies and procedures and avoid any real, potential, or apparent conflicts of interest that might, in fact or in appearance, call into question their duties to AJC.
An AJC leadership delegation concluded eight days of consultations with senior government officials, policy analysts, business executives, U.S. diplomats, journalists and other interlocutors in three Arabian Gulf states.
This week on AJC Passport, we’re joined by Katharina von Schnurbein, Coordinator on Combating Antisemitism for the European Commission, to discuss the troubling results from an EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) survey of Jews across Europe. AJC CEO David Harris also joins us to discuss how European governments respond to antisemitism.