Published originally in POLITICO. Six months after a shooting war in Gaza, Congress is more involved in controversies over Islamophobia and anti-Semitism than it is in resuscitating a two-state solution…
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[New York, NY – October 21st, 2021] The American Jewish Congress condemns today’s statement made by the national Sunrise Movement. While the statement acknowledges that antisemitism is discrimination, it does the bare…
[New York, NY – October 20th, 2021] The American Jewish Congress strongly condemns the decision of the Sunrise Movement’s DC Chapter to boycott an event supporting democracy in Washington, DC, dangerously arguing that three major…
[New York, NY – October 19th, 2021] The American Jewish Congress is encouraged by the decision of the Board of Education of Cobb County, Georgia to pass a resolution condemning antisemitism,…
By Ishaan Tharoor, originally published in Washington Post. On the face of it, Germany’s main far-right party should be licking its wounds. The Alternative for Germany, or AfD, dropped about…
[New York, NY – October 7th, 2021] In response to the troubling news that the German-Jewish singer Gil Ofarim was discriminated at the Westin Hotel in Leipzig, Germany because he was prominently wearing a Star…
Originally published in POLITICO. The rise of antisemitic incidents around the country this month has forced Democrats and Republicans alike into uncomfortable corners as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict hit a flashpoint….
Originally published in the Washington Post. Several of the most prominent U.S. Jewish organizations appealed Friday to the Biden White House to take measures to combat antisemitism after a string…
On October 15th a Twitter spokeswoman claimed that “attempts to deny or diminish” the Holocaust would be REMOVED from the platform. Yet, this image and images like it appeared AFTER…
Today marks the two-year anniversary of the Tree of Life Synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, it took the lives of eleven beloved members…
