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28/09/2017

AJC Transatlantic Institute Calls on European Parliament to Condemn Appearance of Palestinian Terrorist, Investigate Incident

Brussels - 28 September 2017 - The AJC Transatlantic Institute called today on European Parliament President Antonio Tajani to investigate how Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist Leila Khaled was allowed to speak in the Parliament and urged all...

26/09/2017

The AJC Transatlantic Institute Deeply Concerned over Palestinian Terrorist Speaking at EU Parliament

Brussels - 26 September 2017 - The AJC Transatlantic Institute is deeply concerned over today's planned appearance and speech by convicted PFLP terrorist Leila Khaled in the European Parliament. The conference under the auspices of the far-left GUE group is entitled "The...

01/06/2017

AJC Transatlantic Institute Praises European Parliament for Endorsing in Resolution the Working Definition of Antisemitism

Brussels – 1 June 2017 – The AJC Transatlantic Institute praised the European Parliament for adopting with overwhelming support a Resolution on Combatting Antisemitism which endorses the...

30/05/2017

AJC Transatlantic Institute calls on MEPs to vote for the Resolution on Combatting Antisemitism

Brussels – 30 May 2017 - The AJC Transatlantic Institute today called on Members of the European Parliament to vote on Thursday for the Resolution on Combatting Antisemitism, which, in order to be effective, ought to include the...

18/05/2017

AJC Transatlantic Institute Welcomes More Balanced EU Parliament Resolution on Arab-Israeli Conflict

Strasbourg – 18 May 2017 – The AJC Transatlantic Institute welcomes that today’s European Parliament resolution on the Arab-Israeli conflict is more balanced than previous such documents as it more clearly addresses Palestinian obstacles to peace, specifically incitement and...

18/05/2017

AJC Transatlantic Institute Condemns Ban on Religious Slaughter in Wallonia

Brussels– 18 May 2017 – The AJC Transatlantic Institute condemns the decision by the Walloon Parliament to ban religious slaughter as an attack not just against the Orthodox community that will be most directly affected but as an attack against Jewish life in Belgium in...

25/10/2016

AJC Transatlantic Institute Welcomes European Parliament’s Condemnation of Iran’s Threats Against Israel and Holocaust Denial  

Strasbourg – 25 October 2016 – The AJC Transatlantic Institute welcomes that the European Parliament today strengthened a key Iran report by slamming Tehran's institutional anti-Semitism and threats against the Jewish state....

20/10/2016

AJC Urges European Parliament to Condemn Iran’s Human Rights Abuses and Holocaust Denial

Brussels – 20 October 2016 – The AJC Transatlantic Institute urges all Members of the European Parliament to support crucial amendments submitted by Marietje Schaake to a key Iran report, which will be voted in plenary next Tuesday in Strasbourg. These amendments correct...

06/10/2016

AJC Transatlantic Institute Deeply Concerned over Weak European Parliament Iran Report

Brussels – 6 October 2016 – The AJC Transatlantic Institute is deeply concerned over the failure of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee to mention let alone criticize in its Iran report Tehran’s anti-Semitic propaganda and repeated calls for the destruction...

24/06/2016

AJC Deplores Abbas Speech to European Parliament, Refusal to Meet Israeli President Rivlin in Brussels

New York – June 23, 2016 – AJC, an organization that has spent decades seeking to advance Arab-Israeli peace, decried Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s incendiary address against Israel before the European Parliament, as well as his refusal...