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Neocons Do Not Speak for Iranian-Americans

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Neocons, Iran, American Jewish Committee, National Iranian American Council, Iran War Hype, Israel Iran War, Obama Israel Iran, Iran War Diplomacy, World News

The schedule for the American Jewish Committee conference in Washington coming up in May highlights that Sohrab Ahmari, an Iranian-American, will be a...

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Latino-Jewish Congressional Caucus: A Washington Success Story

Dina Siegel Vann | Posted 10.21.2011

Read More: Xavier Becerra, American Jewish Committee, Eliot Engel, Jewish Latino Alliance, Latino-Jewish Congressional Caucus, Latino Voices News

A strong coalition between the Latino and Jewish communities is more critical than ever given the many challenges faced by the US, both domestically and globally.

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The Fake Outrage of the Israel Firsters

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Israel, Obama, Netanyahu, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Benjamin Netanyahu, American Jewish Committee, Israel 1967 Borders, Obama Middle East, World News

The Israel-first crowd has decided on two things: (1) They do not want Israeli-Palestinian peace, period, and (2) they want to see President Obama defeated in the next election.

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No "Hamas Exception" for Human Rights: A Reply to the American Jewish Committee

Robert Naiman | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Gaza Blockade, Gaza, President Barack Obama, Denis Halliday, Hillary Clinton, American Jewish Committee, MV Rachel Corrie, Hamas, Gaza-Freedom-Flotilla, David Harris, World News

The logic of the argument that the blockade of Gaza is automatically justified by the threat of violence to Israel from Hamas is essentially the same logic that the Bush-Cheney Administration used in justifying its decisions to torture detainees.

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Can a Palestinian Story Prompt Dialogue for Middle East Peace?

Danielle Berrin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Julian Schnabel Miral, Rula Jebreal, Rabbi Irwin Kula, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Miral, Julian Schnabel, American Jewish Committee, Rabbi Marvin Hier, World News

Julian Schnabel must have known that screening a film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the United Nations General Assembly would be scene-ste...

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Release Alan Gross

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Raul Castro, American Jewish Committee, Jewish, Cuba, Alan Gross, World News

I appeal to His Excellency President Raul Castro to release Mr. Alan P. Gross on humanitarian grounds. He is in poor health and should be reunited with his family.

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Keith Olbermann Fights Glenn Beck's Jew-Baiting While Jewish Organizations Look Away

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jewish Organizations, American Jewish Committee, Beck, Israel, Jewish, Olbermann-Israel, World News

Beck is entitled to hate Soros for helping to keep progressive causes alive. But he has crossed a huge line by attacking him by way of his ethnic background.

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Israel Lobby's Last Minute GOP Push

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lobby, Israel, Aipac, Republicans, Democrats, American Jewish Committee, World News

The usual suspects have been warning President Barack Obama almost since Inauguration Day that there would be a literal price to pay if he assumed the...

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American Jewish Committee Opposes Mosque Too

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Israel, American Jewish Committee, Muslims, Mosque, David Harris, New York, Ground Zero Mosque, park51, Cordoba House, Ajc, New York News

The head of the AJC is all for building the center if it addresses some "concerns." It's like me saying that I will endorse Glenn Beck if he would just address my concerns about his right-wing politics.

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Build the Cordoba Center?

David Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islamophobia, Ground Zero Mosque, American Jewish Committee, Cordoba House, New York City, Islam, Religion News

Once up and running, it won't be long before we know if the founders of the Cordoba Center have delivered on their promise. If so, New York and America will be enriched. If not, the center should be shunned.

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Inside Story: Why ADL Is Opposing Ground Zero Mosque

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Islam, Israel, American Jewish Committee, Jewish, Ground Zero, Mosque, Politics News

I don't know why it should be a surprise that the Anti-Defamation League joined the rightist haters in opposing the mosque at Ground Zero.

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MidEast Peace: Pessimism from the Right and the Left

Eileen Read | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ronald Lauder, Stephen Walt, Bret Stephens, Jewish Voice for Peace, ForeignPolicy.Com, Wall Street Journal, Jewish, Palestinians, Middle East Peace, Daniel Pipes, J Street, Muslim, Arab, American Israel Political Action Committee, American Jewish Committee, Middle East, Tikun Olam, Jew, John Mearsheimer, Middle East Peace Process, Israel, Aipac, Aaron David Miller, New Republic, Foreign Policy, Israeli, Martin Peretz, World News

Why is it that merely talking about talking about peace brings instant backlash? Four of the most controversial writers on the Middle East - pessimist...

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There's a Whiff of McCarthyism in the Air

David Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nita Lowey, Mccarthyism, American Jewish Committee, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, "Dual Loyalty, American Jews, World News

In the censure of public officials on Israel, there's a whiff of McCarthyism in the air, and it doesn't smell any better today than it did 60 years ago.

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The Day US Jewish Groups Went Too Far With the Word "Terrorist"

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Flotilla, Rachel Corrie, Gaza, American Jewish Committee, Virgin Mary, Terrorist, Palestine, Israel, Hezbollah. AJC, Jewish-Americans, Samar Hajj, World News, Mariam, World News

Israel and its American supporters will do anything to prop up their myths. Even calling a bunch of really amazing ladies "terrorists" to paint them in a nasty light.

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Hillary Clinton, Ehud Barak To Address American Jewish Committee

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ehud Barak, American Jewish Committee, Hillary Clinton, Ajc, World News

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak are slated to speak at the American Jewish Committee's Annual Meeting in Ap...

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Bishop Reportedly Blames Jews For Criticism Of Catholic Church Record On Abuse

Guardian | Tom Kington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandal, Roman Catholic Church, Giacomo Babini, Catholic Church Anti-Semitism, American Jewish Committee, Anti-Semitism, Ajc, Catholic Church Judaism, Catholic Church Jews, Pontifex, World News

A furious transatlantic row has erupted over quotes that were attributed to a retired Italian bishop, which suggested that Jews were behind the curren...

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Dear German Chancellor Angela Merkel

David Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Angela Merkel, American Jewish Committee, Germany, Israel, Jewish, World News

AJC made its own investment in the new Germany. It turns out to have been among the wisest investments we ever could have made. Thank you for helping justify our confidence in the Germany that you today so ably lead.

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Iran's Nuclear Program: Crunch Time

David Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

Iran has been caught in yet another act of deception. Faced with the prospect of being outed by the U.S., Tehran's leaders informed the IAEA of a second uranium enrichment facility.

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U.S. Jews Protest Catholic Document On Salvation

AP | RACHEL ZOLL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion, Jews, U.S. Bishops, Covenant and Mission, Orthodox Judaism, Catholicism, Catholics, Statement on Salvation, American Jewish Committee, Roman Catholic, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Anti-Defamation League, Judaism, Pope, Home News

NEW YORK — Major Jewish groups and rabbis from the three largest branches of American Judaism said Thursday that their relationship with Roman C...

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Remembering My Battle Against Fundamentalists

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jerry Falwell, Last Temptation of Christ, American Psychological Association, The Road Less Traveled and Beyond, U.P.I., Pat Robertson, Christian Fundamentalism, Religious Addiction, Jewish Fundamentalism, The Journal of Religion and Health, Fundamentalists Anonymous, Daiwa Bank, Mainline Churches, There Is a Way Out, God?S Will, Today Show, Marty Scorsese, Religious Right, Los Angeles Times, Fundamentalist, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Moral Majority, Islamic Fundamentalism, Christian Science Monitor, Steve Allen, Phil Donahue Show, Hollywood Under Siege, Madonna, Culture Wars, PTL Club, USA Today, Toronto Star, Henry Luce III, San Francisco Chronicle, London Observer, Daniel Berrigan, Luce Publications, Norman Lear, Hank Luce, Gunther Hirshberg, Henry Luce Foundation, Village Voice, Ari Goldman, Universal Studio, U.S. Congress, A. James Rudin, M. Scott Peck, New York Law Journal, Josh Baran, Salman Rushdie, Newsweek, Frank Zappa, Presbyterian, Bill Geist, Ram Dass, Associated Press, A.C.L.U., Psychology Today, Terry Sweeney, Cnn, Like a Prayer, Wall Street, Satanic Verses, Jimmy Swaggart, American Jewish Committee, Oprah Winfrey Show, New York Observer, People for the American Way., New York Times, Episcopalian, New York News

Our biggest accomplishment was standing up for those torn down by the TV evangelists.

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Germany and Turkey: Similar in Crime; Different in Penance

Harut Sassounian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Turkey, Germany, Holocaust, American Jewish Committee, Armenia, Armenian Genocide, Israel, Ajc, World News

I could not help but make a mental comparison between the remorseful way the German Federal Republic has reacted to the Holocaust and the Turkish government's incessant denials, lies and distortions of the Armenian Genocide.

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Hundreds Protest Anti-Semitic Environment In Venezuela

Jewish & Israel News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President Hugo Chavez, Latin America, Venezuela, American Jewish Committee, Mariperez Synagogue, Caracas, Anti-Semitism, New York, Jewish Community, World News

Hundreds rallied in front of the Venezuelan Consulate in New York to protest the vandalizing of a Caracas synagogue. The rally, organized on short ...

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The Jewish Reaction to the Pope's Welcoming Back Holocaust Denying Bishop: Disproportionate!

Rabbi Irwin Kula | Posted 11.17.2011

How is it that the view of some cranky powerless bishop evokes calls of a crisis in Catholic -Jewish relations, despite the revolutionary changes in Church teachings regarding Jews since Vatican II?

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Major American-Jewish Organizations may no Longer Back Turkey in Congress

Harut Sassounian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Italy, Turkey, Germany, Adl, Olmert, Washington DC, Anti-Semitic, Congress, American-Jewish Organizations, Armenian Genocide, Britain, Erdogan, Tel Aviv, France, Synagogue, Gaza, Gul, Jacob Isaacson, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, American Jewish Committee, B'nai B'rith International, Israel, Crimes Against Humanity, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, Spain, Abraham Foxaman, Anti-Defamation League, Czech Republic, Izmir, Logoglu, World News

American-Jewish organizations, which had for years supported Turkey's agenda on the Armenian Genocide in the U.S. Congress, were incensed by Turkish condemnations of Israel.

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Eric Alterman: 'The Israel Lobby,' Neocon Pundits "Bad For The Jews"

The Nation | Eric Alterman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Neoconservatives, Neocons, American Jewish Committee, Israel Lobby, Politics News

Today's topic is the paradox--or one of them, anyway--of American Jewish political behavior. No, it's not that hoary old cliché that they "earn like ...

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