AJIRIDC

American Jewish International Relations Institute-B’nai B’rith International

[Mario Díaz-Balart @MarioDB]

I commend President @DanielNoboaOk's decision to withdraw from the anti-Israel committee, reinforcing Ecuador’s commitment to principled leadership and strengthening U.S.–Ecuador defense and security cooperation.

[Danny Danon 🇮🇱 דני דנון @dannydanon]

Yesterday we revealed that the UN intends to approve for its 2026 budget various activities against the State of Israel.
The UN will also allocate about $80 million this year to UNRWA, an organization that has for years been a hotbed of terrorism.
This is an organization whose employees were involved in the October 7th massacre and the kidnapping of an Israeli citizen to Gaza.

It is time for the UN to stop funding terrorism and start fighting it.

[B’nai B’rith International @BnaiBrith]

B’nai B’rith and its affiliated partner, AJIRI-BBI (@ajiridc), hosted an event on Capitol Hill on Dec. 9 marking 50 years since the U.N. General Assembly passed the infamous “Zionism=Racism” resolution, which unleashed decades of anti-Israel extremism and propaganda.

It was the only public event held in the United States commemorating this consequential date.

Read more: https://t.co/kEORKnl7q3

[ד״ר עינת וילף Dr. Einat Wilf @EinatWilf]

What To Do When Facing Those Willing to Gouge Out Their Own Eye Just to Gouge Out Two of Ours?
(Reflections on the Second Intifada and the Present Moment)

Before the massacre of October 7, I remembered the years of the Second Intifada (the one many now wish to see globalized) as the darkest time to live in Israel. Suicide bombings turned daily life into Russian roulette — stepping out of the house to board a bus, sit in a café, or go to a nightclub meant gambling with your life. There was no way of knowing whether you would return home. Yehuda Poliker’s haunting 2001 lyric — “Who’s next in line, and who’s in line next” — perfectly captured the mood of those days.

Above all hung one terrifying question: how do you confront an enemy willing to kill itself so long as it can kill more of you? We felt that with all of Israel’s advanced technology and the might of the IDF, the Palestinians (and no, it was not just Hamas — enough with that comforting illusion) had us licked. We told ourselves: these are their “smart bombs” — human beings ready to step onto a bus or walk into a crowded café and blow themselves up, just to kill more of us.

What made it even more confounding was timing. They launched this campaign just weeks after having the chance to create a state in the West Bank and Gaza — without settlements, with a capital in East Jerusalem, including holy sites. The economy was thriving and there was prosperity, and elements of sovereignty were already in place. And yet, Palestinians chose not to seize it and there were nonPalestinian voices protesting this lost “opportunity.” We could no longer tell ourselves the comforting stories about “loss of hope,” “economic hardship,” or “they just want a state” — nor the myth that Rabin’s assassination “killed peace,” for Ehud Barak had offered the Palestinians far more than Rabin, in his worst nightmares, could have imagined offering. And still, much of the world rallied, as Hussein Abubakr Mansour wrote so aptly, “to participate symbolically in the pogrom” — through the frenzy of anti‑Israel hatred in Durban and the libel of Israeli apartheid.

In the end, though many insisted the problem could not be solved by military means, it turned out that it could. With Operation Defensive Shield, the re‑occupation of West Bank cities, the construction of the ugly but effective wall and fence, and an array of intelligence measures and checkpoints, Israel slowly defeated the Palestinian assault and brought it to a level that allowed life in Israel to resume.

And now, once again, we face an enemy willing to harm itself — and given decades of Palestinian patterns, we must finally abandon the comforting thought that this is “just Hamas.” This is an adversary prepared to endure hunger and devastation rather than give Israel a military or diplomatic edge, refusing to surrender or release hostages even as suffering and war grind on. As Dr. Shany Mor observed, nothing was ever more quintessentially Palestinian than the suicide bombings — the purest expression of a national ethos built on negation and destruction, one more invested in tearing down what Zionism has built than in building anything of its own.

Today we ask again: is there any military — or any other — solution to a worldview that prefers self‑destruction, in one form or another, so long as Israel suffers more? I do not yet know exactly how we will overcome this current assault — especially when our leadership is, this time, so dismally cowardly and poor. But I am certain Israelis will find a way. Because at its core, this is a struggle between two ideologies: Palestinism, which will not rest until not a single sovereign Jew remains between the river and the sea; and Zionism, which — despite the ferocity of every assault against it — remains committed to nothing more, and nothing less, than the right of the Jewish people to live as a free nation, in at least part of their historic homeland.

[B’nai B’rith International @BnaiBrith]

B’nai B’rith and AJIRI-BBI honored Ambassador Jackson T. Soram, ambassador of the Federated States of Micronesia to the U.S., for his country’s resolute support for Israel at the United Nations.

Soram has also been appointed ambassador to Israel and will present his credentials in Jerusalem next week. “Micronesia is proud to stand by Israel’s side,” he said, pledging to keep the 🇫🇲-🇮🇱 bond “vibrant and strong.”

Read more: https://t.co/j03H7gDGRW

[Ambassador Mike Huckabee @USAmbIsrael]

As I reflect on the women who embody heroism and all it means to me – my heart is drawn to the women soldiers and observers of the 77th and 13th Battalions who showed incredible bravery at the Nahal Oz outpost on October 7th. These are my women of courage.

[AJIRIDC @ajiridc]

Time for US Pushback at the United Nations https://t.co/HX7tWfaZ7a via @thejpc

[B’nai B’rith International @BnaiBrith]

Read our Opinion piece featured in The Hill!

New US envoy to UN should counter anti-Israel bias

Whoever is nominated in place @RepStefanik to serve as U.S. ambassador to the @UN will encounter an institution that is decadent and badly in need of strong American leadership.

Read and share: https://t.co/zKnAfHX4Rf

[AJIRIDC @ajiridc]

New US envoy to UN should counter anti-Israel bias https://t.co/SkYPcR1Qh7

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

Since October 7 2023 facts and untruths have vied for public attention.

It has been hard to know what to believe.

Which is why a new report released later today in the House of Commons is so important.

Led by esteemed British historian Lord Roberts of Belgravia it should put an end to the lies once and for all. It probably won’t.

But this has been 12 months work with multiple testimonies proving the sheer monstrousness of the attack which Roberts describes as “scenes of sadistic barbarism not seen in world history since the Rape of Nanjing in 1937.”

He adds: ‘This report will serve as a permanent memorial and enduring resource for governments, educators, and civil society in order to safeguard the truth against denialism and distortion.’

Among the findings: 👇🏼

[ד״ר עינת וילף Dr. Einat Wilf @EinatWilf]

נדמה שחוזרים למדיניות המזלזלת באויב, בכוונותיו, ובמחויבותו לבנות מחדש את היכולות לממש את מטרתו (מה גם שאנחנו מעבירים לו עוד משאבים לשם כך), אז תזכורת שטבח ה-7 באוקטובר לא בוצע בשל מצוקה בעזה או היותה ״כלא פתוח״, אלא בשם אידיאולוגית ״השיבה״:
(לראיון המלא: https://t.co/QsN15LaNNx)

[Shurat HaDin - שורת הדין @ShuratHaDin]

The U.S. is DONE with UNRWA! 🇺🇸

Incoming U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Rep. Elise Stefanik: "We will not only defund UNRWA, we will dismantle it."

No more U.S. dollars for a terror-infested agency that aids Hamas. It's OVER.

h/t @ARISEforIsrael

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

WATCH: Hamas Employees of UNRWA Have Just Executed civilians for receiving UN Humanitarian Aid Without Paying “Fees” to the Terror Group.

The UN and media are silent to avoid damaging the victim image of Hamas. So please share this video!

[B’nai B’rith International @BnaiBrith]

Our hearts break for Yarden Bibas, who buried his family—his wife, Shiri, and their redheaded babies, Kfir and Ariel—in Kibbutz Nir Oz, where they led peaceful lives until Oct. 7.

May the Bibas family and the people of Israel never have to endure such a painful tragedy again. 🧡

[B’nai B’rith International @BnaiBrith]

Our hearts are shattered by the unbearable news that the bodies of four murdered hostages were returned to Israel from Hamas captivity and identified overnight. 💔

Ohad Yahalomi, Tsachi Idan, Itzik Elgarat and Shlomo Mantzur deserved to live—to celebrate life, surrounded by family and friends—not to be stolen, tortured and returned in coffins.

Amid this devastation, the only comfort is that all four souls will be laid to rest with dignity in Israel.

We share in the immeasurable grief and pain of a nation. We stand shoulder to shoulder with the Israeli people as they mourn, remember and demand that every single hostage—living or not—be brought home. 🎗️

May their memory forever be a blessing.

[Ted Deutch, CEO of American Jewish Committee @AJCCEO]

I'm on @FDD's Morning Brief RIGHT NOW with @JSchanzer to talk about @AJCGlobal's Center for a New Middle East and our newly released State of Antisemitism in America Report. Tune in!

[Bruce Pearl @coachbrucepearl]

Watch video and decide which side you are on! You cannot be on both sides of this issue any longer. Israel needs to do all it can to get as many hostages out that are still alive, find a way for innocents to leave Gaza, then the world must allow Israel to destroy Hamas @JNS_org

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

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In July of 2006, the brilliant Thomas Sowell @ThomasSowell wrote an article titled “There is no Middle East 'peace process'”. It is as relevant today as it was 19 years ago because the similarities are so striking. So I thought I’d post it here:

Now that Israel has responded to rocket attacks and the abduction of its soldiers by terrorists by making military strikes into areas controlled by those terrorists, much of our media are deploring another "cycle of violence" in the Middle East. For reasons unknown, some people seem to regard verbal equivalence as moral equivalence — and the latter as some kind of badge of broadmindedness, if not intellectual superiority. Therefore, when Palestinian terrorists ("militants" in politically correct newspeak) attack Israel and then Israel responds with military force, that is just another "cycle of violence" in the Middle East to some people. The "cycle" notion suggests that each side is just responding to what the other side does. But just what had Israel done to set off these latest terrorist acts? It voluntarily pulled out of Gaza, after evacuating its own settlers, and left the land to the Palestinian authorities.

[Prof Gerald M Steinberg @GeraldNGOM]

Compare & contrast: The moral clarity of @KevinVuongMP #Toronto with the immoral hypocrisy of @EspenBarthEide @NorwayMFA: https://t.co/5PzLH8OEPl

[AJIRIDC @ajiridc]

Very sad news. Olga was a true friend of the Jewish people. Deepest condolences to her family. Gone way too soon.

RIP Olga Washington, Christian Zionist and staunch Israel supporter https://t.co/Psu8ScTFwZ via @JNS_org