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NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC called Iran's refusal to cooperate with an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) delegation another ominous sign of its nuclear plans. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) "The doomed IAEA mission is Iran's telling answer to holding honest discussions about its nuclear program," said AJC Executive Director David Harris. "Continuing to ratchet up global sanctions targeting Iran's banking and...
NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An AJC delegation has concluded a two-day diplomatic mission to Guatemala City, Guatemala. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) On Monday, the AJC group, along with leaders of Guatemala's Jewish community, was received by President Otto Perez Molina and Foreign Minister Harold Caballeros at the Presidential Palace for a one-hour meeting. The visit to Guatemala also included meetings with U.S. Ambassador Arnold...
NEW YORK, Feb. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC praised the FBI for arresting this afternoon an alleged suicide bomber headed for the U.S. Capitol building. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) According to news reports, Amine el-Khalifi, originally from Morocco and believed to be in the United States illegally, was arrested near the Capitol, after being the subject of an investigation for several months. He had considered other targets in the...
NEW YORK, Feb. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC welcomed the assertion of friendship toward Israel and remorse over the crimes of the Holocaust in a powerful address Croatian President Ivo Josipovic delivered to Israel's parliament. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO ) "President Josipovic, whose country will enter the European Union next year, made clear in his Knesset address the depth of Croatian commitment to Israel's security and to broad...
NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, was the keynote speaker at a major international conference marking the 40th anniversary of AJC's Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) Pillay commended the key role JBI played in pressing for and ensuring the creation of the High Commissioner post by the UN General Assembly in 1993....
NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC has made a second donation to the Greek Jewish community to assist Holocaust survivors in financial need due to the severe economic crisis gripping the country. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO ) "We stand in solidarity with the Greek Jewish community, to whom we feel so close," said AJC Executive Director David Harris. "Those Greek Jews who miraculously survived the horrors of the Nazi occupation...
NEW YORK, Feb. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC called today's attacks on Israeli embassy staff in India and Georgia reprehensible and another ominous indication of how far terrorists, and their state sponsors, will take their war against Israel. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) "The bombing in India, and attempted attack in Georgia, have the unmistakable fingerprints of Iran, and its terror proxy Hezbollah, which destroyed Israel's Embassy in...
NEW YORK, Feb. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC's Rabbi David Rosen urged the UN General Assembly today to protect the quest for Arab-Israeli peace from extremists' assaults by giving more power to "religiously responsible voices." (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) "If we don't want religion to be 'part of the problem,' the answer cannot be to ignore it, as political leaders seeking a solution to the conflict have often done in the past," said Rosen,...
PARIS, Feb. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An AJC delegation has just concluded a visit to Paris, highlighted by a meeting with French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) The delegation also met with, among others, the National Assembly's France-Israel friendship group; Richard Prasquier, President of the Crif (the umbrella body for French Jewry); Manuel Valls, communications director for Socialist Party presidential...
NEW YORK, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC, the premier global Jewish advocacy organization, congratulated India and Israel on the 20th anniversary of the two democratic nations establishing full diplomatic relations. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) "After two decades of wide-ranging ties, the rationale, depth and mutual benefits of the India-Israel relationship are abundantly clear to the governments and people of both countries, and to...
