American Jewish Committee

American Jewish Committee   (Israel lobby)
Motto	Global Jewish Advocacy
Formation	1906
Headquarters	New York, USA
Leader	David A. Harris
Subgroups	•  Transatlantic Institute •  Africa Institute •  Asia and Pacific Rim Institute •  Belfer Center for American Pluralism •  Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights •  Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies •  Commentary (Magazine) •  European Forum on Antisemitism •  Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Humanitarian Fund •  Israeli Coalition for the Refugees of Darfur and Sudan •  The Jewish People Policy Planning Institute •  Koppelman Institute on American Jewish-Israeli Affairs •  Latino and Latin American Institute •  Lawrence & Lee Ramer Center for German-Jewish Relations •  Martin Kimmel Young Leadership Institute •  Project Interchange •  Ramer Center for German-Jewish Relations •  Thanks to Scandinavia •  Transatlantic Institute •  UN Watch •  Z Word
Membership	Emanuele Ottolenghi
Zionist lobby and political action group

The American Jewish Committee is a Zionist lobby and political action group which serves as the foreign policy wing of the Israel lobby. It has 33 chapters across the United States, which engage in pro-Israeli/Zionist proselytizing and propaganda.

While AIPAC is usually touted to be the main pro-Israeli lobby, or "The Lobby", in reality this is an erroneous appreciation of the Zionist lobby. AIPAC's role is mostly related to influencing the U.S. political scene, but other organisations, e.g., AJC do the same. Some of their activities overlap.

Activities

AJC engages in the following activities:

1. Lobbying political leaders; networking
2. Organising political action (for voting in Congress, etc.)
3. Coalition building (It organises/helps other groups, e.g., Hispanic-Americans, to become more effective lobbyists, and they seek to obtain political advantage from such alliances).
4. Send journalists, student leaders, opinion formers, etc., to Israel for a coordinated program educating them on the Israeli perspective.
5. Create pressure groups to affect organisations that are seen as hostile to Israel, e.g., UN Watch is such an AJC-instigated project.
6. Create organisations to lobby and influence large constituencies about Israel and other AJC pet projects.
7. Campaigning against those opposed to Israel, e.g., Hezbollah.

Supporting Israel Herzliya Conference 2008

In 2008, the American Jewish Committee supported the 8th Herzliya Conference in Israel.

Strengthening ties to British Jewry

In 2006, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) meeting with members of London's Jewish community in 'an effort to strengthen AJC’s ties to British Jewry'

The report states that:

'AJC President E Robert Goodkind led a leadership delegation to London to meet with the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the main community organizing body for British Jews, as well as with the Community Service Trust and the newly formed Jewish Leadership Council. The group also met with British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, longtime Jewish community leaders Lord Greville Janner and Sir Trevor Chinn, and with leadership from the Reform, Liberal and Conservative Masorti movements. In addition, the group held meetings with those Members of Parliament who initiated a serious parliamentary investigation of anti-Semitism, and with younger leaders of Conservative Friends of Israel and Labour Friends of Israel. AJC Board members Stanley Bergman and Peter Rosenblatt joined Goodkind on the mission.

Overseas Offices/International affiliates

The AJC operates a network of front groups and in tandem with affiliated organisations.

International Partners (Jewish groups)

• Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA)
• Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC)
• Shalom (Organization of Jews in Bulgaria)
• Comité Representativo de las Entidades Judías en Chile (CREJ)
• Centro Israelita Sionista de Costa Rica (CISCR)
• Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic
• Romanian Federation of Jewish Communities
• Conseil des Communautés Israelites du Maroc (CCIM)
• Tribuna Israelita (TI)
• Comite Central de la Comunidad Judia de Mexico
• Asociación Judía del Peru
• Association of Religious Jewish Communities of Poland
• Union of Jewish Religious Communities in the Slovak Republic (UZZNO)
• Federacion de Comunidades Israelitas de España (FCIE)
• Communaute Juive de Tunisie (CJT)
• Turkish Jewish Community (TJC)
• Confederación de Asociaciones Israelitas de Venezuela (CAIV)
• European Council of Jewish Communities (ECJC)
• European Union of Jewish Students (EUJS)

Partners

• Friedrich Naumann Foundation

 

Known member

All 1 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Emanuele Ottolenghi	Foundation for Defense of Democracies, suspected US-Israeli DSF

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