This week on AJC Passport we talk about CNN’s shocking report about antisemitism in Europe with CNN Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward and AJC Europe Director Simone Rodan-Benzaquen.
The Council recently met in Austin to take stock of its 2018 initiatives, address the most pressing developments on its priority agenda, and join in the launching of the Texas LJLC, its first regional affiliate.
The new CNN survey of attitudes towards Jews in seven countries – Austria, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Poland, and Sweden – raises profound concerns. Jews are an infinitesimal percentage of Europe’s population, but continue to play an outsized role in the European imagination.
AJC is highlighting the situation of eight religious communities under threat across the globe and encouraging people of all faiths to join in shining a light on the areas of the world where darkness remains, and the freedoms of religious communities are suppressed.
"While in the Oval Office, he exerted particularly skillful, indeed visionary, leadership during a period of dramatic change in the world,” said AJC CEO David Harris. “The overall record of support for endangered Jews worldwide and the quest for Arab-Israeli peace is also part of his enduring legacy.”