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PARIS, Nov. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Jewish Committee (AJC) lauded French President Francois Hollande and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for their moving remarks at the memorial service in Toulouse commemorating the victims of the terrorist attack last March. The lone Islamist gunman opened fire at the Jewish school Ohr Torah, leaving three children -- Arieh and Gabriel Sandler and Myriam Monsonego -- and one teacher, Jonathan Sandler, dead. (Logo:...
BRUSSELS, Oct. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC applauds the European Parliament for awarding the 2012 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to two Iranians--lawyer and human rights advocate Nasrin Sotoudeh and filmmaker Jafar Panahi. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) "This is the first time that Iranian citizens have won this prestigious award," said Daniel Schwammenthal, Director of AJC's Transatlantic Institute. "Unfortunately, the world usually...
NEW YORK, Oct. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Jewish Committee (AJC) praised law-enforcement authorities for preventing a major terrorist attack yesterday aimed at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) The FBI and New York Police Department had been following Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, for months. The authorities arrested him yesterday when attempting to detonate what he believed to be a...
BRUSSELS, Oct. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC (American Jewish Committee) is calling on members of the European Parliament to cancel their planned visit to Iran this month. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) "For European lawmakers to make an official visit to Iran is shockingly absurd when the 27-member European Union has unanimously imposed ever-tightening sanctions on Iran for its reckless behavior that endangers global security," said Daniel...
NEW YORK, Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new American Jewish Committee (AJC) survey of Jewish voters in the battleground state of Ohio reveals that 64 percent will choose President Obama, and 29 percent will vote for Governor Romney on Election Day. It is the third and last in a series of pre-election polls of American Jewish opinion. The others were a national survey and a separate poll in Florida. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) "Each survey...
NEW YORK, Sept. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than two-thirds -- 69 percent -- of Jewish voters in Florida say they will choose President Obama over Governor Romney, who will win 25 percent of the state's Jewish vote, according to a new American Jewish Committee (AJC) survey. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) Obama won 76 percent of the Florida Jewish vote in 2008. Jews comprise about four percent of the voters in Florida, which is widely...
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) resolution censuring Iran "is yet another strong rebuke of Tehran for defiantly ignoring the UN nuclear watchdog," said AJC Executive Director David Harris. "Overwhelming support for the IAEA measure demonstrates international unity on confronting Iran's nuclear program." (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) The IAEA Board of Governors passed the resolution today...
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC Executive Director David Harris issued today the following statement: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) "AJC is deeply troubled by the way major media handled reports about an Internet video that allegedly prompted the outrageous attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and Consulate in Libya. "Initial reports identified the filmmaker as an Israeli-American who had received funding from 100 Jewish...
NEW YORK, Aug. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The latest report of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is another stark reminder that Iran is accelerating its drive for nuclear-weapons capability. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO) "In light of this latest report, the international community must conclude the painfully obvious and redouble its efforts to bring maximum pressure on the Iranian regime," said AJC Executive Director...
NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC called for Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani's immediate release when he appears in an Iranian court. Nadarkhani, accused of apostasy, already has spent more than 1,000 days in prison in Rasht. Iranian authorities may bring him back to court on Monday, ahead of the original September 8 date. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO )"The Iranian regime has moved up the Nadarkhani case, bringing it to the forefront just as...
