The American Council for Judaism formally protested to Secretary of State Christian Herter regarding Israel asserting a right to speak in the name of the Jewish people.

What we found

Context. A JTA item reports that Rep. Christian Herter resigned as vice-chairman of H.E.L.P., a group that included ACJ president Lessing Rosenwald, but it does not mention any ACJ protest to Herter as Secretary of State.[1]

Context. The ACJ-related sources (Wikipedia, the URJ 1957 resolution, and the JCFA article) discuss ACJ opposition to Zionism and the Jewish Brigade and its clashes with the Reform movement, but none mentions a formal protest to Herter or to any Secretary of State.[2][3][4]

Context. The ACJ's own homepage describes its mission against the idea of Judaism as a nationality, without addressing any specific protest.[5]

Sources

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1. 1Rep. Herter Resigns Vice-chairmanship of Newly-formed Anti-zionist ...jta.org · not rated · cited for: context
2. 2American Council for Judaism - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
3. 3American Council for Judaismurj.org · not rated · cited for: context
4. 4American Jewry and the State of Israel: How Intense are ...jcfa.org · not rated · cited for: context
5. 5Home | The American Council for Judaismacjna.org · not rated · cited for: context

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• The Pete Quiñones Show · Oct 10, 2026“the American Council for Judaism. They were more moderate than some of these other Jewish NGOs, but they, you know, they, they, they weren't moderate in any objective or absolute sense, they went as far as the formally protest, Christian Herder, who was the secretary of state, serving secretary of state at the time Objecting to Israel, asserting a right to speak in the name of of the Jewish people”Post →

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