JNS
Witnesses, including from AJC, ADL and B’nai B’rith, will advise Congress “at a time when governments and civil society are evaluating the effectiveness of previous measures to combat antisemitism.”
Experts will make recommendations to the U.S. Congress during a scheduled May 20 hearing of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on “worldwide persecution of Jews,” the commission announced.
American Jewish Committee CEO Ted Deutch, Anti-Defamation League senior vice president Marina Rosenberg, B’nai B’rith International legislative affairs director Eric Fusfield and Hannah Rosenthal, a former U.S. special envoy for monitoring and combating Jew-hatred, are the scheduled witnesses.
The hearing, which is open to the public and will be livecast, will offer “a global overview of antisemitism,” including its prevalence and forms “in various parts of the world.”
It will also, the commission stated, address “governmental responses to antisemitism—whether they seek to combat it or foster, and assess the effectiveness of government policies to combat antisemitism and what is and can be done with governments that foster antisemitism.”
The commission added that the hearing comes “at a time when governments and civil society are evaluating the effectiveness of previous measures to combat antisemitism.”
