(JNS) World Jewish Congress and Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) has announced the re-establishment of the International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians to respond to the global rise in anti-Semitism.

The newly relaunched ICJP will convene for its first consultation this spring in a lead-up to the World Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly on May 25.

A global network of Jewish legislators, government ministers and other elected officials, the ICJP “aims to promote dialogue and collaboration between Jewish parliamentarians; to support the principles of democracy, the cause of human rights, and the rule of law; and to combat racism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia, terrorism and Holocaust denial by those means available to legislators and government ministers.”