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5 stories that AIC ran, co-sponsored, or was called on for.
OrganizedAnna Levy writes up the free Chanukah tour of Jerusalem's Old City that AIC put on with the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, ending at the Western Wall. Cheryl Dorchinsky on why they made it free and open to anyone, anywhere.
OrganizedThe AJT wrote up a webinar the Atlanta Israel Coalition hosted with AJC Atlanta and Temple Emanu-El on the Israeli startup Sonovia and its anti-pathogen face masks. Cheryl Dorchinsky is named as AIC's founding director and one of the speakers.
OrganizedIsrael InSight reported on the AIC panel on U.S.-Israel police exchanges, where a Fayetteville police chief, GILEE founder Robert Friedmann, and Joshua Washington of the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel took apart the claim that those exchanges drive police violence against Black Americans. Cheryl Dorchinsky moderated.
Richard Friedman reports on the panel AIC hosted on US-Israel police exchanges, with a North Carolina police chief, GILEE founding director Robert Friedmann and the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel. Cheryl Dorchinsky moderated, and the piece carries a follow-up interview in which she describes how anti-Israel activists pick a campus target and set out to demonize it.
OrganizedIsrael InSight wrote up "Let's Rise Up Together," the July 2020 webinar AIC convened on racism, antisemitism, and hate with Joshua Washington, Kay Wilson, Kasa Bainesay Harbor, and Rev. Anthony Johnson. The magazine listed the co-sponsors AIC pulled in, from the Israeli Consulate in Atlanta to a string of local synagogues.
Also following
Reporting on Jewish Atlanta and on Israel that AIC did not run, kept here because it is the context our work happens in.
More than 135,000 Ethiopian Jews live in Israel, and Sigd is their holiday. Teaching Beta Israel's history and traditions is part of teaching Israel accurately, in Atlanta classrooms as much as anywhere else.
Bassem Eid has been arrested by the Palestinian Authority and never by Israel, and he says so in public. Palestinian voices who describe the Palestinian Authority accurately are the ones Atlanta audiences almost never get to hear.
A 2020 argument that the Movement for Black Lives platform's language on Israel could not be held separate from BLM itself. Black-Jewish relations in Atlanta are older and sturdier than any one platform, which is why that language mattered here.
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