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Antisemitism has arguably reached new heights in recent years. While Jews have certainly come a long way since the Holocaust, anti-Jewish sentiment is still prevalent across the globe.

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June 15, 2021 - Marjorie Taylor Greene, Your Apology is NOT Accepted!

American Jewish Congress Announces Launch of #NotAProp Social Media Campaign in Response to Greene The American Jewish Congress strongly rejects Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor-Greene’s (R-GA) June 14 “apology” for equating COVID mask-wearing with the forced-wearing of the Star of David during the Holocaust. In response to her persistent abuses of the memory of the Holocaust, we have launched a social media campaign - #NotAProp - featuring Holocaust survivors who provide searing testimony about their experiences and their reaction to actions that demean the Holocaust. The first post, featuring 95-year old author Frank Shatz--who survived and escaped a Nazi death camp in Romania--appears today. “Greene…

May 26, 2021 - POLITICO: Rising antisemitism strains Democrats and GOP alike

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. The recent violence in Gaza has been the backdrop for discriminatory attacks against Jews in multiple U.S. states, in addition to other cities around the world, that have highlighted the growing partisan divide in Washington over how best to achieve peace in the decadeslong war. On Thursday the Anti-Defamation League shared early reports of 193 antisemitic incidents in the U.S. amid a week of conflict in the Middle East, compared with 131…

May 26, 2021 - NPR: Kevin McCarthy Leads House GOP In Blasting Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Holocaust Remarks

Originally published in NPR. Nearly four months after condemning Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's comments on antisemitic conspiracy theories, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is once again rejecting the Georgia Republican's rhetoric — this time over her equating of COVID-19 safety measures with the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust. The remarks by the freshman Republican congresswoman — and criticism of them — come against the backdrop of antisemitic incidents across the United States in apparent response to the recent fighting between Israel and Hamas that saw a large number of civilian casualties. Those domestic incidents have been condemned across the political…

May 24, 2021 - NBC NEWS: ‘Evil lunacy,’ GOP lawmakers slam Marjorie Taylor Greene’s comparison to Holocaust

Originally published in NBC News. Republican lawmakers blasted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., over the weekend for comparing the House's mask mandate to the Holocaust. The Republicans who criticized Greene were among those who either voted to impeach President Donald Trump this year or, in addition, voted to strip Greene of her committee assignments. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who was recently ousted from GOP leadership after she continued to refute Trump's electoral falsehoods, lambasted Greene's comparison as "evil lunacy" in a tweet. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., one of three House Republicans who voted both for Trump's impeachment and to strip Greene of her…

May 23, 2021 - WASHINGTON POST: Rep. Greene slammed for comparing House covid restrictions to the Holocaust

Originally published in the Washington Post. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is being widely lambasted for comparing the continuing coronavirus restrictions in the U.S. Capitol to what Jewish people suffered during the Holocaust. In a recent appearance on Real America’s Voice network’s “The Water Cooler with David Brody,” a conservative show, Greene complained about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent decision to keep a mask mandate on the House floor over concerns that many Republican lawmakers might not be vaccinated. “This woman is mentally ill,” Greene said, referring to Pelosi (D-Calif.). “You know, we can look back in a time in history where people were told to…

May 22, 2021 - WASHINGTON POST: Jewish American groups appeal to Biden White House after string of antisemitic attacks related to Israel

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 of attacks on Jews across the country related to the Mideast conflict between Israel and Hamas. Jews in New York City, Los Angeles and south Florida were physically or verbally assaulted by individuals claiming the cause of the Palestinians, among other incidents, in the 11 days since fighting erupted in Israel and Gaza. A yarmulke-wearing man was hospitalized after being attacked by a group of people making antisemitic statements near…

April 8, 2021 - American Jewish Congress wears Gab founder Andrew Torba’s recent attacks on us with a badge of honor

Gab founder Andrew Torba attacked an American Jewish Congress report that appropriately described the social media platform as a stage for antisemites, white supremacists, and extremists. Torba specifically targeted us for exposing the efforts of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to leverage Gab's extremist audience to build political capital by fundraising on the platform. Greene is not only an active user of Gab, but she has raised funds by pandering to these extremists. Just yesterday Greene thanked her Gab followers for helping her raise a staggering $3.2 million in the first three months of 2021.  As we have stated before, the intersection…

April 7, 2021 - Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Gift of the Gab Sees Far-Right Social Media Following Flourish

Published originally in Newsweek. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has fully embraced social media platform Gab for political power and fundraising purposes, bringing mainstream followers onto its extremist platform and mobilizing the extremists already there, the American Jewish Congress (AJ Congress) has claimed. Gab is an alternative social media network that champions free speech, and has attracted neo-Nazis, white supremacists and QAnon conspiracy theorists. QAnon is a disproven and discredited American far-right conspiracy theory alleging that a secret group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles was running a global child sex-trafficking ring. The conspiracy theory alleges the secret cabal looked to remove former President Donald Trump from…

March 30, 2021 - Leader of national Jewish organizations has a message to Amazon about QAnon: They are terrorists, not customers

By Frank Shatz, The Virginia Gazzette Jack Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress and chairman of the American Council for World Jewry, has a message for Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos: start treating the anti-Semitic conspiracy group known as QAnon as a terrorist group and not customers. QAnon related goods and materials are readily available on the online retailer’s many platforms, and because Amazon has a regional headquarters in Virginia, Rosen has given me and the Gazette readers the story. According to the FBI and other law enforcement bodies, QAnon is a discredited American far-right conspiracy theory that alleges a…

March 24, 2021 - Stop Gun Violence

The Jewish community and the country as a whole are consistently and directly threatened by easy access to assault weapons. Gun violence ravages our communities and undermines the sense of personal security that all Americans deserve. Congress should pass smart legislation to combat the gun violence epidemic now.

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