Press Releases and Statements

An AJC leadership delegation just concluded a two-day visit to Georgia’s capital. The mission was highlighted by a 70-minute meeting with the Prime Minister of Georgia, Giorgi Kvirikashvili.

An AJC leadership delegation just concluded a two-day visit to Azerbaijan's capital. The mission was highlighted by a 75-minute private meeting with the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, at his presidential dacha. There was also a dinner with Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov, who addressed the AJC Global Forum in Washington, D.C., in 2013.

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 mourns the passing of Rev. Billy Graham, a longtime friend of the organization, who died today at age 99.

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 strongly condemned Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s speech before the UN Security Council, in which he called for an ‘international conference” by the middle of this year to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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 is calling on a federal court to uphold an Arizona law supportive of the state’s relations with Israel and to oppose efforts to declare the measure unconstitutional.

The national Latino Jewish Leadership Council (LJLC) convened in the nation’s capital for a series of meetings on the first anniversary of its founding.

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

AJC, the premier global Jewish advocacy organization, presented its prestigious American Liberties Medallion to Representative John Lewis.

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

AJC, the global Jewish advocacy organization, joins with world Jewry and governments around the globe in observing International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

For the tenth consecutive year, Rabbi Andrew Baker, AJC’s director of International Jewish Affairs, will serve as Personal Representative on Combating Antisemitism for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

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.