Press Releases and Statements

AJC, in a new statement on Israeli-Palestinian peace, reaffirms its longstanding support for a negotiated two-state solution to the conflict.

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon is escorting a delegation of ambassadors to the UN on a trip to Israel, organized by AJC Project Interchange and led by Ambassador Aaron Jacob, AJC Director of Diplomatic Affairs.

AJC presented a donation today to help rebuild the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce, Florida, severely damaged in an arson attack in September.

AJC is deeply disappointed that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) was unable to adopt today the Working Definition of antisemitism, due to the obstructionist role of one of its 57 member-states, the Russian Federation.

AJC is urging members of the U.S. House of Representatives to adopt the bipartisan Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2016.

AJC applauds Congress for overwhelmingly passing a ten-year extension of the 1996 Iran Sanctions Act (ISA).

AJC decries France's counterproductive decision to implement the 2015 EU labeling guidelines regarding Israeli goods produced in the West Bank and Golan Heights.

AJC is outraged by an attack on a Reform synagogue in Ra’anana, Israel.

A young leadership delegation of AJC, the global Jewish advocacy organization, met with government officials, U.S. and Israeli diplomats, prominent journalists and Jewish community leaders in Colombia and Mexico.

AJC welcomed President-elect Trump’s pledge to “disavow and condemn” the Nazi-tainted “alt-right” organization that gathered in Washington, D.C., where the group’s leader, Richard Spencer, launched a vile antisemitic tirade at his group’s daylong conference.

AJC called today on President-elect Donald Trump to condemn any thought of establishing a government registry for Muslims.

A delegation of eighteen AJC leaders advanced Hindu-Jewish relations and participated in an international interfaith dialogue during AJC's Interreligious Affairs Mission to India, November 11-20.

AJC criticized those Israeli legislators who supported a proposed bill in the Knesset that would legalize settler outposts, erected without Israeli government approval, in the West Bank.

AJC CEO David Harris today issued a statement reaffirming the global Jewish advocacy organization’s principles and vision for America.

An AJC leadership delegation just concluded a three-day visit to Brussels.

Exactly 110 years ago tomorrow, on November 11, 1906, 31 individuals, including such noted American Jews as Cyrus Adler, Louis Marshall, Jacob Schiff, and Mayer Sulzberger, gathered at the Hotel Savoy in New York, following six previous exploratory meetings earlier that year. They officially formed the American Jewish Committee (AJC).

AJC, the global Jewish advocacy organization, congratulates Donald Trump on his election as the 45th President of the United States.