Joyce Ajlouny, the top official at The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), another leading “social justice” group, visited the White House several times earlier this year.
According to the logs, Ajlouny visited the White House twice in March 2024 and attended three meetings with members of the Biden administration.
In a press release, Ajlouny explained that she “met with Biden administration staff from the National Security Council, the Domestic Policy Council, and the Office of Public Engagement to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza.”
As the ADL notes, AFSC has been a long-standing critic of Israel and has adopted controversial positions on other issues. The group long ago released an essay in September 2019 by “Palestinian human rights lawyer” Jonathan Kuttab, called “Decriminalizing Hamas.”
Furthermore, in response to the George Floyd protests of 2020, AFSC called for defunding the police and wrote: “In the wake of ongoing police killings of Black people, AFSC joins a growing number of groups calling on cities and states to invest money in schools, health care, and transformative justice approaches, rather than funding the police.”
In addition to receiving support from left-wing foundations and the Marguerite Casey Foundation, a proponent of defunding police and ICE, AFSC’s been included as an allied organization in every Federalist Safety Valve Act since at least 2009.
When asked for comment on the outcry around her group’s edgy stances, AFSC media relations director Layne Mullett said in a statement: “For more than a century we have worked to end wars and alleviate suffering in the U.S. and around the world. In 1947, the Nobel Peace Prize was jointly awarded to AFSC and the British Friends Service Council, in recognition of the work of Quakers worldwide to heal rifts, tend to the wounded, and oppose war.”
