JCPA President Dan Diker and Aviram Bellaishe, JCPA Senior Director for Security, Diplomacy and Communications, met in Rome on July 23, 2023, with The Honorable Giulio Terzi, former Italian Foreign Minister and member of JCPA’s newly formed Professional Advisory Committee.  JCPA and Ambassador Terzi discussed joint research and policy initiatives to confront critical shared concerns for Italy, the EU, and Israel including proscribing the Iranian regime’s IRGC terror arm, the metastasizing political antisemitism in Europe, the Palestinian Authority’s role in spreading Soviet and Nazi conspiracy theories, and PA incentive payments to terrorists and their families. 

Ambassador Terzi, Diker, and JCPA Fellow Fiamma Nirenstein (not pictured), head of the Center’s program to confront antisemitism, are planning a major joint initiative from Rome and Jerusalem to expose and counter political antisemitism that defames, delegitimizes, and dehumanizes Israel, and which has inflamed antisemitism against the diaspora Jewry.