Career
In the late 1980s, Jacobs served as the Deputy Director of the Boston Chapter of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), a media watchdog that responds to media bias against Israel. Throughout the following decade, he pursued a career as an international management consultant, working as a publicist, advertising campaign promoter, and speech writer for several organizations and became a member of public relations firm and speakers' bureau Benador Associates.
He learned about the continuing existence of slavery in North Africa in 1993. The next year Jacobs left his job to found the American Anti-Slavery Group with African human rights activists Mohamed Athie of Mauritania and David Chand of Sudan, beginning to work full-time as the organization's first research director.
He was appointed director of The Sudan Campaign in May 2000, serving as one of its four co-chairmen since 2004. On September 18, 2000, in recognition of his work for the American Anti-Slavery Group and as its president, he received the Boston Freedom Award in a ceremony attended by Boston mayor Thomas Menino and Coretta Scott King, who presented it.
On September 28, 2000, he testified to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with three survivors of slavery from around the world. In April 2001, he "joined a slave redemption mission in Sudan that helped liberate over 2,900 enslaved women and children."
After September 11, 2001, Jacobs joined the Board of Advisors of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, created in response to the events of 9/11 and the War on Terrorism. He founded The David Project Center for Jewish Leadership in 2002. The next year, in 2003, Mohamed Athie became president of the AASG, while Jacobs served on its board as its treasurer. In July 2008, Jacobs resigned as President of the David Project "in order to focus on a new initiative in support of the Jewish community."
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