In the 1970s, leaders at the Japanese American Citizens League, one of the oldest and largest Asian American civil rights organizations, felt the prospect of reparations for their wartime incarceration was out of reach.
Many Americans knew little about how the government had imprisoned more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent, most of whom were American citizens, during World War II.
Then came a surprising endorsement from the American Jewish Committee.
It was the start of a decades-long bond between two of the country’s most established Jewish and Japanese American civil rights groups — a relationship cherished by both of their communities.
But a new generation of Japanese Americans is now pushing to sever ties with two prominent Jewish American organizations.
Persons:
Nikkei4Palestine, ”
Organizations:
American Citizens League, American Jewish, Jewish
Locations:
Gaza