AJC Op-Ed on FOXNews.com: Why Isn't Anyone Pointing Fingers at Hamas?
Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister of the Hamas regime ruling Gaza, has admitted to rejecting the humanitarian assistance delivered on the Rachel Corrie and six other ships diverted to the Israeli port of Ashdod for security clearance. Read on foxnews.com
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El Pais, Leading Paper in Spain, Publishes AJC Op-Ed on Arab-Israeli Conflict
What is the biggest obstacle to Israeli-Palestinian peace? Confusion over whether the conflict is about 1947 or 1967. READ
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Coming up
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AJC Houston board outreach
Monday, July 12 at 7 pm
At risk: Turkey's Jewish Community
with
Yehudit Barsky
Tuesday, July13
Israel, Turkey & Iran: Changing Dynamics in the Middle East
with
Yehudit Barsky
AJC director of Middle East and International Terrorism
Mexican-American Emerging Leaders Seminar August 28-29
Latin American Jewish Task Force with
Dina Siegel Vann
Sunday, Aug. 29
AJC outreach briefing
"Jewish communities in Latin America"
Monday, Aug. 30
Tuesday, October 19
LUNCHEON
Presentation of the Max H. Nathan Award to
Ellen and Stephen Susman
European Emerging Leaders Houston visit
Nov. 12-14
Friday, Nov. 19
America's Table Thanksgiving program
Sunday evening, Dec. 5 Consular Corps Chanukah Party
AJC's Institute of Human Relations Award dinner honoring
Mike Ballases
JPMorgan Chase
and featuring
Daniel Cardinal DiNardo
Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011
Omni Houston Hotel
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AJC Radio Message: 60 Seconds to Make a Difference on Iran
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Houston briefings July 12-13
Changing Mideast dynamics affect communities, relationships
AJC's director of the division on the Middle East and International Terrorism will brief multiple forums during a two-day visit on July 12-13. The director, Yehudit Barsky, is the author of AJC's Series on Terrorism, which includes reports on Al-Qa`ida, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad. She regularly briefs media, law enforcement agencies and Jewish communities on the implications of terrorism on U.S. policy. Her visit here includes an AJC Houston board outreach briefing assessing the current situation for the Jewish community in Turkey on Monday, and a World Affairs Council Houston/AJC briefing on the Changing Dynamics in the Middle East on Tuesday night.
Immigration Task Force
Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia will host, next week, the immigration task force that AJC Houston initiated and created earlier this year with representatives from business, education, ethnic, faith, law enforcement and community leadership. The AJC Bridge America Project initiative is funded by the Ford Foundation.
UN Human Rights Council rebukes Iran
AJC welcomed the U.S.-sponsored statement to the UN Human Rights Council rebuking Iran for its human rights abuses.
AJC Urges Removal of UN Rapporteur Richard Falk
AJC urged the immediate removal of Richard Falk, the UN Human Rights Council's Special Rapporteur on the Palestinians, after he expressed support in an official UN report for the international BDS ("Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions") campaign against Israel.
READ AJC's UN Watch has an action item urging the removal of Richard Falk TAKE ACTION
AJC Praises New EU Sanctions Against Iran
AJC praised the European Union's decision to adopt tougher sanctions against Iran, as the Tehran regime defies world opinion by pressing ahead with its nuclear ambitions. The new sanctions were approved at today's EU summit in Brussels. The sanctions include a ban on investments, technical assistance and technology transfers to Iran's key oil and gas industry.
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Nat Levy, Steve Friedman, Melanie Lowther and staff met to discuss the Interfaith/interethnic commission priorities.
Jack Lascar and Randy Czarlinsky met with Turkish Consul General Akil Oktem.
Noel Graubart, Jack Lascar and staff met with His Excellency El Husseini Abdelwahab, Egyptian Consul General. The Ambassador departs for Cairo later this summer to become Egypt's Assistant Secretary of State for North America and Latin America.
Jack Lascar visited with Greek Consul General Alexandra Theodoropoulou.
Randy Czarlinsky attended the Russian Consulate's National Day reception, the Consulate of Spain's reception with State and Spain's government officials on the creation of the Texas-Spain Chamber and the Consular Corps of Houston briefing with HPD Police Chief.
Barbara Shepard will be AJC's representative to the Presbyterian USA General Assembly in Minneapolis in July. AJC Houston initiated and continues to participate in the local Presbyterian-Jewish dialogue. The General Assembly will be voting on a Middle East Study Committee report that Houston Presbyterians have written to the delegates calling for it to be rejected because of its one sided approach.
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