On 3 March 2015, TAI co-hosted with MEP Arne Lietz the panel discussion "Islamist Ideology and Terrorism in the EU: Understanding the Threat from Within."
After Toulouse, Brussels, Paris and now Copenhagen, the threat of Islamist terrorism has taken center stage in Europe. Much of the current discussion centers on better counterterrorism coordination and increased security, no doubt vital policy tools to deal with the immediate threat. But unless we understand the radicalization process that leads these young men to violence, we cannot hope to find...Read more
On 28 February 2018, MEP Ana Gomes hosted Omar Barghouti, the founder of the anti-Israel "Boycott, Divest and Sanctions" (BDS) movement, in the European Parliament.
Mrs. Gomes defamed the Jewish organizations that opposed her invitation to...
Only months after the European Parliament formally endorsed the IHRA Definition of anti-Semitism, Leila Khaled, active member of the EU-designated terror group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), was on 26 September 2017 given the opportunity to i.a. liken...
Anti-Semitism, an age-old malady, has returned to modern Europe in new guises—a scandal in the UK’s Labour Party, a resurgent National Front in France, and a vulnerable Jewish community in Malmö, Sweden. As Europe faces dramatic demographic change and the rise of nationalism...
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...
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...
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...
Democratic Congressman Ted Deutch commends the European Commission on its use of the Working Definition of anti-Semitism. Congressman Deutch also calls for EU member states to adopt the definition, which will help identifying and combating the age-old hatred....
EU Commissioner Věra Jourová Endorses the Working Definition of anti-Semitism, which includes 1) Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology. 2) Making dehumanizing, or demonizing allegations about Jews — such as the...
Brussels – 31 May 2016 – The AJC Transatlantic Institute welcomes the agreement the European Commission reached today with social media companies on combating illegal hate speech. The signatories to this code of conduct commit themselves to accept EU law...