AJC mourns the passing of Linda Brown. She was the subject of the landmark United States Supreme Court decision 64 years ago that ended school desegregation. An AJC amicus brief was influential in the landmark ruling.
The American Jewish Committee (AJC), an organization uniquely devoted in the Jewish world to strengthening Polish-American-Israeli-Jewish relations for nearly three decades, expresses its profound regret that Polish President Andrzej Duda has indicated a readiness to sign a highly controversial bill adopted by the Parliament.
AJC is calling on a federal court to uphold an Arizona law supportive of the state’s relations with Israel and to oppose efforts to declare the measure unconstitutional.
That past has come to the fore in the public controversy over a new law in Poland that will punish those who dare to publicly assert any Polish responsibility for the Holocaust.