AJC Chicago

🚨✍️IT’S TIME TO TAKE ACTION! BDS supporters from across Illinois and the nation are mobilizing and submitting witness slips in favor of this bill – we need your help to counter their efforts.

Witness slips are a critical tool to demonstrate public support or opposition to state legislative initiatives, and strength in numbers is essential to making the position of our community clear to state legislators.

Click the link below and use the following instructions to have your voice heard:
https://ilga.gov/House/hearings/details/3135/22887/createwitnessslip

SUBMIT A WITNESS SLIP
Step 1: Complete the “Identification” section. For “Firm/Business/Agency” put “NA” unless you are representing an organization.

Step 2: Fill out the “Representation” section by entering “Self”

Step 3: Fill out the “Position” section.

1. Click the white box that says “Add Subject Matter” and then select “HB 2723”

2. Click the white box that says “Add Position” and then select “Opponent” (Double check to make sure you selected the correct option).

3. Click the blue “Add Position” button

Step 4: Fill out the “Testimony” section by clicking only “Record of Appearance Only”

Step 5: Select box next to “I Agree to the ILGA Terms of Agreement”

Step 6: Select “I’m not a robot” and then click “Submit Witness Slip”

That’s it...you’ve registered your opposition to this anti-Israel bill!

Members of AJC Chicago’s Diplomatic Outreach Committee (DOC) met with Regina Jurkowska, Consul General of Poland, and Vice Consul Oskar Gradziel to discuss Poland’s relationship with Israel and the importance of countering rising global antisemitism. Thank you Polish Consulate in Chicago for taking the time to meet with us!

AJC Chicago leadership met with Tatjana Telic, Consul General of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Vice-Consul Darja Bugarin. Our discussion topics included Bosnia and Herzegovina's relationship with Israel and the need to counter rising global antisemitism.

Last night, more than 40 Latino and Jewish community leaders came together at Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center Experience360 for a private tour and intimate conversations about where our communities intersect, where we differ, and how we can show up as better allies for one another in a complicated world.

Grateful to be joined by Israel Consul General Elad Strohmayer, Comptroller Susana Mendoza, Ald. Tabares, Ald. Silverstein, and so many thoughtful leaders committed to dialogue, partnership, and solidarity.