World Jewish Congress

The World Jewish Congress, which operates in over 100 countries in 6 continents in order to advance Jewish interests worldwide, states that "a so-called Jewish global conspiracy" is a "big lie".

The World Jewish Congress (WJC) was founded in 1936 in Geneva, Switzerland, as an international federation of Jewish communities and organizations. According to its mission statement, the World Jewish Congress' main purpose is to act as "the diplomatic arm of the Jewish people."

Membership in the WJC is open to all representative Jewish groups or communities, irrespective of the social, political or economic ideology of the community's host country. The World Jewish Congress headquarters are in New York City, US, and the organization maintains international offices in Brussels, Belgium; Jerusalem, Israel; Paris, France; Moscow, Russia; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Geneva, Switzerland. Jewish umbrella organizations in 100 countries are directly affiliated to the World Jewish Congress.

The WJC also maintains a Research Institute based in Jerusalem, Israel. It is involved in research and analysis of a variety of issues of importance to contemporary Jewry, and its findings are published in the form of policy dispatches. Also operating under the auspices of the World Jewish Congress in Israel, the Israel Council on Foreign Relations has since its inception in 1989 hosted heads of state, prime ministers, foreign ministers and other distinguished visitors to Israel and has issued several publications on Israeli foreign policy and international affairs, including its tri-annual foreign policy journal, the Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs.

According to Wikipedia, the WJC's current policy priorities include combating anti-Semitism, especially the rise of "neo-Nazi" parties in Europe, providing political support for Israel, opposing the "Iranian threat", and dealing with the legacy of the Holocaust, notably with respect to property restitution, reparation and compensation for "Holocaust survivors", as well as with Holocaust remembrance. One of the WJC's major programs is concerned with the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries. The WJC is also involved in inter-faith dialogue with Christian and Muslim groups.

Controversies

One criticism is that WJC affiliates have been involved in restricting speech in counties such as Canada and the United Kingdom.

In 2013, the World Jewish Congress passed a resolution demanding that all the countries of the world must prohibit public "Holocaust denial".

The World Jewish Congress President Nahum Goldmann stated in his memoir that the organization had an influence on the creation of Nuremberg trials. The organization is stated to have had an influence on the day to day proceedings. Regarding Goldmann, the World Jewish Congress, and the six million Jews number, see Holocaust demographics: Six million Jews at the Nuremberg trials.

The book Lectures on the Holocaust states that an established Jewish author who visited a Holocaust revisionist conference wrote regarding hate that "I would see none of it, certainly less than I would see when Jews were speaking of Germans. No one had ever said anything remotely like Elie Wiesel, ‘Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set aside a zone of hate–healthy, virile hate – for what persists in the Germans,’ and no one had said anything like Edgar Bronfman, the president of the World Jewish Congress. A shocked professor told Bronfman once, ‘You are teaching a whole generation to hate thousands of Germans,’ and Bronfman replied, ‘No, I am teaching a whole generation to hate millions of Germans.’"

See also

• Stephen Samuel Wise
• Nahum Goldmann

External links

• Website