[1] The group successfully advocated for the removal of a mural of American civil rights leader Malcolm X at San Francisco State University in 1994.
[4] 12 years later, the group pushed for the censure of a mural depicting Palestinian American Columbia University professor Edward Said on the same campus.
[7] In 2016, former JCRC Executive Director Jeremy Burton publicly announced the group "dissociated" itself from the Black Lives Matter movement over its pro-Palestinian stance.
[8] American anti-Zionist advocacy group Jewish Voice for Peace has opposed JCRC's work, decrying it as pro-genocide.
JCRCs came into being in the 1930s to provide a means for coordination of defense activity within a community, as local communities were not content to leave this activity solely to national defense organizations like the American Jewish Committee, American Jewish Congress, and Anti-Defamation League, which rarely consulted with each other or with local leadership.