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Kenneth Bandler

Kenneth Bandler is Director of Media Relations for the American Jewish Committee (AJC). He is a columnist at The Jerusalem Post and regular contributor to FOXNews.com. Before joining AJC’s senior staff in 1998, he was the Managing Editor of the global news service JTA. He previously spent ten years at the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council (now the Jewish Council for Public Affairs) as Director of Public Information. During his tenure at NJCRAC, Bandler spent a year at Tel Aviv University@@@s Dayan Center researching and writing about Jewish-Arab relations in Israel.
PRO-PALESTINIAN DEMONSTRATORS rally outside the Israel Embassy in Washington, last Saturday. The AJC surveys reflect the impact of the October 7 Hamas attack in Israel, and immediate surge in antisemitism across the US, the writer notes.

US national strategy to combat antisemitism needs a boost - opinion

ON MY MIND The White House called its strategy, issued in May 2023, “the most comprehensive and ambitious US government effort to counter antisemitism in American history.”

MARCH 6, 2024
TWO DEMONSTRATORS hold signs at a protest calling for calm and Jewish-Arab coexistence in Lod in 2021, following a night of rioting by Arab residents in the city. The signs read: ‘We refuse to be enemies,’ and ‘Together against violence.’

It is urgent to invest in Arab integration in Israel - opinion

Maintaining Jewish-Arab relations in Israel is an urgent imperative essential to the country’s well-being.

FEBRUARY 17, 2024
MK AYMAN ODEH is involved in a confrontation with police at a protest outside the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem in August, after Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich initially froze funds to Arab local councils.

Divesting from Israel's Arabs will harm Israeli society - opinion

Eroding investments in Arab Israelis and undermining the value of Jewish-Arab cooperation, ultimately will adversely impact the strengths of Israeli society.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Ukraine-Russia War has been a disaster for Holocaust research - opinion

Vitalii Bobrov: “It is a challenge now to teach about World War II and crimes against humanity then, while experiencing crimes against humanity in the current war.”

AUGUST 29, 2023
A blast is seen near a TV tower adjacent to the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine March 1, 2022.

'Four Winters': Documentary honoring partisan Holocaust survivors - opinion

Four Winters is more than a vital historical record of courageous Jews who managed to stand up against the Nazis.

AUGUST 6, 2023
AN ISRAELI youth holds a flag in front of memorial stones at the Treblinka Nazi Death Camp memorial, eastern Poland.

Normalization of Holocaust parallels in COVID era

Are those invoking Nazi-era images and terms in the context of COVID ignorant of history, or are they aware and believe what they are doing is acceptable?

DECEMBER 26, 2021
US REP. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks to reporters in Washington, earlier this year.

We should invest in a shared Arab-Jewish society - opinion

'After the May violence, a huge number of Jewish schools asked for our shared programs.'

DECEMBER 13, 2021
A PHOTO taken as part of the 'Through Others' Eyes' photography project at Givat Haviva with words such as 'love', 'equality' and 'respect' written in Hebrew and Arabic.

IsraAID celebrates 20 years

Over those past 20 years, IsraAID has responded to a range of crises, including earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and refugees in more than 50 countries.

NOVEMBER 15, 2021
ISRAAID EMPLOYEE Dana Yaari with a Haitian woman amid the destruction following an earthquake in Haiti earlier this year.

Focus needs to be maintained on US antisemitism - opinion

Antisemitic attacks top the FBI Hate Crimes Statistics Report.

NOVEMBER 1, 2021
A WOMAN visits a makeshift memorial outside Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh the day after the massacre in October, 2018.

The Middle East has a terrorist club - opinion

Welcoming “the defeat of the American occupation on all Afghan land,” Hamas praised the Taliban’s “courageous leadership on this victory."

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
HAMAS SUPPORTERS attend an anti-Israel rally as rockets are displayed on a truck in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip in May.

The United Church of Christ's obsession with Israel - opinion

Berating Israel has been at the top of the UCC agenda for decades.

AUGUST 16, 2021
Worshipers are seen during a service at Christ Church United Methodist Church as names of victims of the school shooting were read in Fort Lauderdale

Meet the firm boosting Arabs in Israel's hi-tech field - opinion

While Israel is known internationally as the start-up nation, Arab citizens, 20% of the country’s population, comprise only 3% of the hi-tech workforce. Takwin is determined to change that.

JULY 26, 2021
Founder and CEO Yael Alter, along with VP of Business Development Alon Gozlan receive the news that their start-up, Soos Technologies, has won the $1 million grand prize at the NY-Grow competition.

Assad is a force to be reckoned with, Biden needs to recognize that - opinion

On My Mind: The Biden administration should consider a fresh approach to the Syria crisis as it weighs US engagement with the Middle East region.

MARCH 22, 2021
Syria's President Bashar Assad and his wife Asma, plant trees in city of Draykish, near Tartous, Syria December 30, 2020.