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Among human rights groups in the United States, we’ve led the effort to ensure that the U.S. government makes antisemitism a foreign policy priority. Our emphasis is on Europe, where antisemitic hate crime is alarmingly prevalent and increasing in some areas. We urge the U.S. government to work with its European allies to institute laws and practices to combat this problem. Photo: AP.


Republicans and Democrats, religious groups and civil liberties groups, military officers and peace activists, prosecutors and defense attorneys: we’ve worked with all of them at key moments to forge progress and to advance our long-term project of building a broad pro-human rights constituency in the United States. Learn about our coalition of retired military leaders.



Genocide and other crimes against humanity are complex, organized crimes.  They require infrastructure, planning, and resources. We’ve developed an innovative strategy to focus on “enablers”—the countries, companies, and individuals that provide the means that make mass atrocities possible. Our idea is to disrupt the supply chain for slaughter. Photo: Getty Images.

From Gitmo’s inception more than a decade ago, we’ve been out front making the case that the prison is a grave threat to both human rights and U.S. national security. President Obama’s pledge to shut it down has fallen victim to obstruction in Congress and a lack of political will on his part, but we’ll keep pushing until we succeed. Photo: AP.

Hate crime violence not only alters, and sometimes ends, individual lives; it creates fear that can oppress entire communities. The U.S. government has credibility on this issue, which is should leverage by helping other governments put in place laws and systems that can effectively combat prevent hate crime.  Photo: AP.