Press Releases and Statements

AJC welcomes passage of the Taylor Force Act, bipartisan legislation that aims to end the Palestinian Authority’s abhorrent practice of rewarding terrorists. The legislation is included in the omnibus appropriations bill adopted by the House and Senate.

In marking today’s 75th anniversary of the rescue of nearly 50,000 members of the Bulgarian Jewish community during the Holocaust, AJC CEO David Harris, who has visited Bulgaria frequently, looks back at the meaning of this extraordinary action and what followed in the decades since.

An AJC leadership delegation has concluded a visit to London and Paris for a series of intensive conversations with government officials and Jewish community leaders on efforts to fight antisemitism and ensure Jewish community security.

AJC praised the remarks that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered today before an audience of over 18,000 at the annual AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, D.C.

AJC welcomes a letter signed by 60 Members of the European Parliament (MEP) calling on the European Union Foreign Affairs Council to designate Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist organization.

AJC, the global Jewish advocacy organization, welcomed an educational initiative by Spain’s government and Jewish community to combat antisemitism.

AJC deplored the European Parliament for barring a cross-party group of EU lawmakers from hosting a cartoon exhibition highlighting Tehran’s human rights violations.

A new video, “I will go to jail,” has just been released that assails Poland for perpetrating a “Polish Holocaust” against the Jewish people during the Second World War.

AJC criticized Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s remarks asserting that Jews were among the “perpetrators” of the Holocaust.

The American Jewish Committee (AJC), an organization uniquely devoted in the Jewish world to strengthening Polish-American-Israeli-Jewish relations for nearly three decades, expresses its profound regret that Polish President Andrzej Duda has indicated a readiness to sign a highly controversial bill adopted by the Parliament.

AJC Central Europe is urging Polish lawmakers to reconsider their adoption of a controversial bill regarding Holocaust accountability.

AJC Central Europe is firmly opposed to legislation that would penalize claims that Poland or Polish citizens bear responsibility for any Holocaust crimes.

AJC applauds Lithuania for adopting the working definition of antisemitism.

AJC hailed Vice President Mike Pence’s address to the Knesset, the first-ever delivered by a U.S. vice president to Israel’s parliament in Jerusalem.

AJC Central Europe has called on Poland's government to take concrete steps to monitor and counter the activities of Neo-Nazi groups.

Sheikh Moafaq Tarif, the spiritual leader of the Druze community, delivered today an urgent plea for the safety of the Druze community in Syria.

The group, led by AJC CEO David Harris, had excellent, in-depth meetings with President Klaus Iohannis; Acting Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Mihai Fifor; Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu; President of the Chamber of Deputies Liviu Dragnea; and U.S. Ambassador Hans Klemm. The delegation also had the chance to meet briefly with the incoming Prime Minister, Viorica Dancila, who is scheduled to take office at the end of this month.

AJC is urging the foreign ministers of European Union member states to publicly denounce Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s inflammatory statements about Israel when the EU Foreign Affairs Council meets with him on Monday, and to insist that he retract them.

The delegation, led by AJC CEO David Harris, met with Chancellor Sebastian Kurz; Chairs of the parliamentary groups for the liberal NEOS, center-right ÖVP, and center-left SPÖ; Israeli Ambassador Talya Lador-Fresher; and Chargés d’Affaires of the U.S. Embassy Eugene Young.