Press Releases and Statements

AJC praised the New York Police Department for the apprehension of an individual who brutally assaulted Menachem Moskowitz on April 21.

Diplomats, Jewish leaders, representatives of New York ethnic and faith groups, and members of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) gathered at the global Jewish advocacy group’s headquarters this morning to memorialize Mireille Knoll, the 85-year-old Jewish grandmother and Holocaust survivor, who was savagely murdered in her Paris apartment.

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

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

Antisemitism is widespread among Arab refugees in Germany, concluded a study commissioned by the American Jewish Committee (AJC).

AJC welcomed the announcement by Rutgers University that an openly antisemitic professor, Michael Chinkidas, will be disciplined by the school.

AJC Central Europe, together with the University of Warsaw’s Center for Research on Prejudice, cosponsored a seminar on “Antisemitism in Poland: Diagnosis, Consequences, and Methods of Prevention.”

AJC is appalled by a Russian Orthodox Church bishop’s assertion in Moscow that Jews were responsible for the deaths of Czar Nicholas II and his family in 1918, a year after the Bolshevik Revolution.

AJC is outraged that Robert Barchi, president of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, refuses to openly confront the blatant antisemitism and hate espoused by three faculty members.

In a Huffington Post op-ed, AJC CEO David Harris criticized Larry David for his “vulgar banalization of the Holocaust” when opening the Saturday Night Live show over the weekend.

Rabbi Andrew Baker, AJC Director of International Jewish Affairs, addressing the House Judiciary Committee today, called for expanding the use of the Working Definition of Antisemitism to American college and university campuses.

An AJC survey of Berlin public school teachers reveals the growing infiltration of Salafism, and a corresponding increase in antisemitism in classrooms.

The bloody confrontation in Charlottesville tragically showed again that hate groups are still very active and cannot simply be dismissed as marginal or insignificant elements in our society.

Members of the Latino Jewish Leadership Council (LJLC) strongly denounce the violence, hatred and antisemitism displayed by white supremacists, the KKK, and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12.

AJC praised the U.S. House of Representatives for adopting unanimously the Combating European Antisemitism Act of 2017, and urged the U.S. Senate to move expeditiously to pass its version of the bill.

AJC is urging Secretary of State Tillerson to fill without further delay the position of Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism.