I grew up surrounded by survivors of the Nazis (and Bolsheviks), not to mention visiting dozens of sites of mass atrocities and meeting many eyewitnesses, rescuers, and liberators. Its mission aligns with our aspiration to serve as a 'lighthouse community,' a platform for cross-cultural engagement, within the UAE and beyond.

To claim that an elected official is acting Nazi-like because he’s trying to keep the public safe from a public health epidemic, based on the available information at the time, is irresponsible in the extreme.

All of this is to say I cannot accept the analogies I hear today, nor the implications they suggest for the United States. And in the years that followed, I worked in Vienna and Rome, assisting thousands of refugees fleeing the Soviet “worker’s paradise.”

And among President Trump’s foes, seething anger has led to comparisons with Soviet methods. GET REAL-TIME NEWS ALERTS: Be the first to read the news you care about. ; the scorched-earth destruction wrought across Europe and North Africa; and the death toll of literally tens of millions directly resulting from the Nazis’ 12-year reign? “Arbeit Macht Frei, JB,” said the placard protesting Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s response to COVID-19. Mr. Lerner has been particularly focused on advancing relations and understanding among the Muslim, Arab, and Jewish worlds, believing this can be an important contribution to advancing regional and global peace and harmony. 55,470 talking about this. Subscribe to personalized notifications and receive breaking news 24/7.

STAY IN TOUCH: We welcome you to submit news tips and to tell us what you think by emailing us directly through the app or at app@ajc.com. AJC's mission is to enhance the well-being of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. News and Analysis from AJC CEO David Harris. Does that protester, and her many counterparts across the country, have a clue who Hitler was; what the Gestapo, SS, and Einsatzgruppen represented; what happened at Auschwitz-Birkenau and other death camps; the genocidal meaning of the Holocaust; the tragic fate of countless Roma, gays, Slavs, freethinkers, etc. Pritzker is Jewish. One-party rule, sham elections, denial of basic human rights, arbitrary arrests, kangaroo courts, forced confessions, internal exile, Gulag, KGB, militant atheism, sealed borders, abuse of psychiatry, endemic corruption, censorship, economic stagnation, occupation of foreign lands, and pervasive fear and paranoia were all hallmarks of the Soviet system — and I’m only scratching the surface. Whatever one’s thoughts about politics today, America is not lurching towards Nazism or Bolshevism.

Indeed, I had the chance to teach in the Soviet Union in the 1970s as part of an official U.S.-Soviet exchange program, until I was expelled after several months for my activities with persecuted Soviet Jews. We welcome this announcement, and look forward to working with AJC in the days ahead as they continue their effective engagement in the region.”. There is perhaps no organization in the world today with more innocent blood on its hands than Hezbollah. Share easily with friends on Facebook, Twitter and email. Let me be clear. Breaking news, watchdog journalism and everything in between. Europe Must Put Aside Its Outdated Thinking Around the World with AJC CEO David Harris - AJC Advocacy Anywhere On the Frontlines of Pro-Israel Advocacy - AJC Advocacy Anywhere More in News and Analysis from AJC CEO David Harris.

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AJC Chief Policy and Political Affairs Officer Jason Isaacson has led the agency's Arab outreach efforts. But let’s not misrepresent history, distort and trivialize the Nazi and Soviet eras in the service of partisan aims, and make facile comparisons to today’s America in the process. UAE Ambassador to the UN Lana Nusseibeh appeared on an AJC Advocacy Anywhere webinar in May; UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Anwar Gargash was a featured speaker in the AJC Virtual Global Forum in June. The three words in German come from the infamous sign at the entrance to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, where 1.1 million women, men and children, 90 percent of whom were Jews, were slaughtered in the gas chambers and their bodies turned into ashes in the crematoria. American Jewish Committee (AJC), which for more than 25 years has advanced understanding and fostered cooperation between Arab states and the Jewish people, today announced its plans to open an office in the United Arab Emirates. With its move to open a UAE office, AJC also looks forward to deepening its ties with the expatriate Jewish community of the Emirates -- a community AJC played a role in helping establish through repeated visits and introductions over the years. If Atlanta is talking about it, the AJC has the story. My mother was a survivor of both Soviet communists and German Nazis. Find archives for The Atlanta Constitution, Mundo Hispanico, . American Jewish Committee (AJC), which for more than 25 years has advanced understanding and fostered cooperation between Arab states and the Jewish people, today announced its plans to open an office in the United Arab Emirates. To describe the degree of anger and alienation of those on the right, Hitler and the Nazis have been trotted out repeatedly as reference points to protest official rules for wearing masks, social distancing, home sheltering, or business shutdowns. I have spent a lifetime trying to study both systems. Refresh this page The move comes in the wake of the historic announcement Aug. 13 by President Donald Trump, His Highness Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the UAE and Israel would establish full diplomatic relations. Yehuda Sarna, Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Council of the Emirates, welcomed the move, saying, "AJC played an essential convening role early on in the history of our community. AJC International Director of Interreligious Affairs, Rabbi David Rosen, introduces his overview of AJC’s involvement in global interfaith relations, Jewry’s main relationships with the Christian world, and recent historic inroads with the Muslim world. Explore Atlanta Journal Constitution archive, both historical and recent editions.

So, by all means, let the political debates rage in our endlessly challenging — and, yes, democratic — environment. Non è possibile visualizzare una descrizione perché il sito non lo consente. At the same time, there is no terrorist ... More General News. AJC delegations have visited the UAE at least annually for more than 20 years and consulted regularly with senior officials, business and interfaith leaders, diplomats, and policy analysts there and in the United States. 13.". Nowhere is this more evident than in the would-be historical references and analogies that are being thrown into our political discourse with abandon these days. “Since before the country’s founding, UAE society has encouraged tolerance and inclusion,” said Yousef Al Otaiba, UAE Ambassador to the United States.

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Internally sad! August 30, 2020 Here’s a particularly noteworthy example on Twitter from a former American diplomat: Advocacy Anywhere is a new platform that will enable you to engage with AJC’s leading expertise, content, and advocacy opportunities from wherever you are, using cutting-edge technology.



Through its professionalism, care, nuance, and respect for others, AJC has rightly earned the trust of so many leaders in this region.". Even more, it dishonors the memories of the tens of millions who perished at the hands of both tyrannies. — New York. Enough is Enough: The Case for Banning Hezbollah - AJC Advocacy Anywhere September 17, 2020 There is perhaps no organization in the world today with more innocent blood on its hands than Hezbollah.

Join Ambassador Nathan Sales, the U.S. State Department’s Coordinator for Counterterrorism; Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer (2019-2020) and Home Secretary (2018-2019); and Hans-Georg Engelke, German State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, as they make the case for the full designation of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. "The establishment of diplomatic relations between the UAE and Israel realizes a vision that AJC has helped to pursue for decades," said David Harris, AJC CEO. “AJC’s longstanding dialogue and engagement with the UAE has played a productive role, consistent with this vision. David Harris is American Jewish Committee CEO. — New York. In the months leading up to the Aug. 13 announcement, UAE officials used AJC platforms to reveal their leadership's new thinking on the benefits of cooperation with Israel -- while also urging a halt to Israeli annexation proposals and progress toward a two-state solution with the Palestinians.

The issue for me here is not about coronavirus debates or passionate views for or against Donald Trump. At the same time, there is no terrorist organization that has attained a higher level of international legitimacy with its "political wing" operating with impunity on the European continent. I look at my home now and see Trump deploying those same tactics.” “I spent my early diplomatic career in the Soviet Union where the (Communist) Party ruled the State.

We live in an increasingly ahistorical world. September 2, 2020

And, while I have great respect for our nation’s diplomats, a number of whom I’ve had the pleasure of meeting over the years, the Soviet Union I experienced first-hand, not to mention my family, and engaged with directly for nearly 20 years, has nothing to do with our current political environment, however heated it may be. 5 0 0. Loading... ... Oh No! To do otherwise may make for popular sound bites and images, but it surely makes for bad history. Rather, it’s about invoking comparisons to the Nazi and Soviet eras to make a political point.

To suggest otherwise is to misunderstand, at a fundamental level, the nature of these totalitarian ideologies and their legacies.