America First Committee (AFC)

Formed in 1940, the America First Committee supported an isolationist policy for the United States and actively opposed US entry into World War II. The AFC consisted of a broad coalition including members of the Republican and the Democratic parties as well as communists, anticommunists, farmers, industrialists, students, and journalists. The America First Committee subscribed to a pro-American isolationism that was increasingly perceived as being associated with antisemitic and pro-fascist sympathies. Some of its members held antisemitic or pro-Nazi sympathies, despite the fact that the organization never openly proclaimed these views as its own.