American Jewish Committee

===AJC response during the Holocaust===
AJC "worked to contain nativist sentiment in America rather than work to open America's doors to refugees" during [[the Holocaust]]. For fear of provoking an increase in antisemitic sentiment, the AJC opposed public activism.<ref name="Nazi Collaborators">{{cite journal |journal=Yad Vashem Studies |date=2002 |pages=369–404 |first=Haim |last=Genizi |url=https://www.yadvashem.org/articles/academic/american-jewish-committee-and-admission-of-nazi-collaborators.html |title=The American Jewish Committee and the Admission of Nazi Collaborators into the United States, 1948-1950 |publisher=[[Yad Vashem]] |accessdate=2023-03-23}}</ref> They have been widely criticized for their inaction during the Holocaust; historian and AJC National Director of Jewish Communal Affairs [[Steven Bayme]] said AJC leaders "never understood the uniqueness of Nazism and its 'war against the Jews'".<ref>{{cite journal|last=Bayme|first=Steven|journal=American Jewish Archives Journal|via=[[American Jewish Archives]]|title=American Jewish Leadership Confronts the Holocaust: Revisiting Naomi Cohen's Thesis and the American Jewish Committee|url=http://americanjewisharchives.org/publications/journal/PDF/2009_61_02_00_Bayme.pdf|access-date=16 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101033802/http://americanjewisharchives.org/publications/journal/PDF/2009_61_02_00_Bayme.pdf |archive-date=2020-11-01|page=164}}</ref> This cautious approach changed after the war, when AJC began openly lobbying for a new immigration law allowing entrance to the United States for displaced persons from Europe. This law also led to Nazi collaborators entering the United States, though it remains unclear whether a more restrictive policy would have avoided this outcome.<ref name="Nazi Collaborators"/>