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MIDEAST BRIEFING: Time for Real Change
in the Middle East.
"If the dramatic potential for change in the region - as demonstrated not only in Iran, but also in the Lebanese election results - is to be realized, the U.S. and the West should help their friends in the Arab world walk away from the type of furious and futile responses that Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech has met with so far," writes Eran Lerman, Director of AJC's Israel office, in his weekly briefing.READ BRIEFING>
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Coming up
Monday, June 22 at 5:30 pm
Executive Committee retreat
Saturday- Sunday,
August 29-30
Mexican-American Emerging Leaders Workshop
America's Table
Friday, Nov. 20
Board Meetings
Sept. 17; Jan. 21; March 18 and Apr 22. An October meeting will take place.
Annual meeting May 20
Executive Committee
Sept 3; Nov. 5; Jan. 7 and
March 4
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AJC Applauds Prime Minister Netanyahu's Vision for Peace
"Prime Minister Netanyahu could not have been clearer about Israel's desire to live in peace and security with all its Arab neighbors, including an independent demilitarized Palestinian state," said AJC Executive Director David Harris after the Israeli leader set forth his vision in a major and much anticipated policy address. "President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu have now expressed the shared U.S.-Israel commitment to achieve negotiated Arab-Israeli peace," said Harris. "Let us hope that Palestinian and Arab leaders will seize the opportunity to join with Israel on the path of peace. As Egypt and Jordan already have found, Israel will be a willing partner." READ RELEASE.
AJC on Ahmadinejad "Electoral Victory" in Iran
"The result is a triumph for fanaticism which may well have been enforced upon the Iranian people," said AJC, expressing grave concern, if not surprise, at the victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran's presidential elections. "Since he became president in 2005, Ahmadinejad has demonstrated time and again that he is a world-class thug, serial human rights violator, and Holocaust denier. He has brought nothing but misery upon the Iranian people -- and it appears that he will continue to do so, by fair means or foul." AJC further noted that Ahmadinejad's reelection "underscores why the international community must do all it can to deny the Iranian regime the means to carry out its dangerous and destabilizing nuclear ambitions." READ RELEASE
Executive Director's Blog:
"Nearly Seven Million"?
online Jerusalem Post
Why or how the number "nearly seven million" made it into President Obama's Cairo speech "is unknown to me, but the widely accepted figure is actually less than half that," writes David Harris on his Jerusalem Post blog. "Does it matter? In the real world, yes, numbers have consequences - not just demographic, but electoral and political." READ BLOG
AJC Op-Ed: Holocaust Denial in Israel Needs Urgent Attention
"The last place one might expect to find Holocaust deniers is in Israel. Yet a new University of Haifa survey shows that an astonishing 40.5 percent of Israeli Arabs say the Holocaust did not happen," writes Kenneth Bandler, AJC's communications director, in a JTA op-ed. "Do they honestly believe the Holocaust is a fraud, or is the reaction politically motivated?" READ OP-ED.
The Rise of the British National Party
"The British National Party has never secured any kind of parliamentary representation before. And it has quite a history to overcome," writes Ben Cohen, AJC's Associate Director of Communications, in a feature for the new Jewish online magazine Tablet which probes the history of Britain's main far right party. READ.
AJC Fund to Help Family of Holocaust Museum Guard
"Officer Johns bravely gave his life protecting others as well as the peaceful values that U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum embodies," said Melanie Maron Pell, director of AJC's Washington Chapter. To mail a donation, please make checks payable to AJC with "Stephen T. Johns Memorial Fund" in the memo line and send to:
American Jewish Committee - Washington Chapter
Attn: Melanie Maron Pell
1156 15th Street, NW, Suite 1201
Washington, DC 20005
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Behind the Scenes
AJC is actively engaged in the domestic and international scene as a GLOBAL JEWISH ADVOCACY organization.
Joe Williams, who continues to take leadership roles in and outside the Jewish community, will be presented AJC's Max Nathan Award this fall.
Thank you to following members of the community for getting together at various times this week to talk about AJC: Eric Blumrosen; Steve Brown; Bobby Lapin; Boris Lioznyansky; Melanie Lowther; Rabbi Steve Morgen; Iris Mushin; David Ronn; Richard Shechter; and Helene Zadok.
The Jewish Herald Voice covered AJC's immigration reform grant from the Ford Foundation and planned activities in Houston on its front page. Houston's Spanish press also received press materials. Later this month, staff will participate in discussions with other AJC communities and the Ford Foundation in NY for implementation of the program.
A Chapter delegation reception, hosted by Jack Lascar, received German Consul General Rainer Munzel to thank him for building a close relationship and friendship with AJC and to wish him well in his new post at the German Embassy in Warsaw, Poland.
The Chapter received a note from British Consul General Paul Lynch expressing shock and sympathy regarding the shooting at the US Holocaust Museum.
Randy Czarlinsky participated in the Russian Day reception given by the Consul General of Russia.
AJC's family lost two men who made significant professional contributions to agency. Bert Gold, the agency's executive director from 1967 to 1982 and 1987 to 1988, Jacobo Kovadloff, who served as AJC's Latin American Affairs Director in Argentina, passed away this week.
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