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European leaders ought to be clearly on the U.S. side on this issue. They should play hardball with Moscow and Beijing and announce diplomatic, if not economic, consequences if the two countries block a new Security Council resolution to extend the arms embargo. Such muscular posturing would also be Europe's best bet to preserve what's left of the JCPOA.

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Federal Minister of Defense of Germany, addressed AJC Virtual Global Forum 2020.

Reasserting its longstanding commitment to the struggle for racial justice, pluralism, and social harmony, American Jewish Committee (AJC) today announced the opening of new regional offices in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, and Louisville, Kentucky. “We share the promise of America for all,” said AJC CEO David Harris. “We can help restore the breath of America, even if we cannot help restore the breath of George Floyd.”

Fred Strober’s father was part of the U.S. Army unit that helped liberate a slave labor camp where Nazis imprisoned Jews and Roma. But his father did not speak of the horrors he saw there until 40 years later, before Fred took a trip to Auschwitz. Fred explains that he is attending AJC Virtual Global Forum 2020 in honor of those who bore witness, like his father, and to make “a better future for all of us.”

Through a series of miracles and the benevolence of righteous gentiles, all of Bini Guttman’s grandparents survived the Shoah. They lived long enough to teach him that “Never again” is not an empty phrase. “It means you fight for what’s right.” Now president of the European Union of Jewish Students, Guttman knows while life may not always be easy for Jews in Europe, “we have won.”