Press Releases and Statements

The number of viewers watching AJC Advocacy Anywhere sessions, since the program’s inception in March, now exceeds 2.4 million worldwide. The online series examines timely political, geopolitical, diplomatic, and other issues in the COVID-19 era.

More than 2.2 million people have watched AJC Advocacy Anywhere programs since the leading global Jewish advocacy organization launched the online series of programs on March 20. The first eight weeks have featured conversations with diplomats, political figures, policy analysts, religious leaders, and AJC staff experts on timely, topical issues.

“On behalf of AJC, we extend to you our heartfelt congratulations on the inauguration of a new Israeli Government under your leadership,” wrote AJC President Harriet Schleifer and CEO David Harris in a letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu.

AJC Transatlantic Institute applauded the European Parliament for condemning the Palestinian Authority’s failure to act against incitement in textbooks, insisting that educators receiving EU-funds abide by UNESCO standards against hate, and calling on the EU’s executive body to ensure funds promote peace and tolerance in schools.

American Jewish Committee (AJC) applauds the Missouri Legislature for overwhelmingly passing today SB 739, the "Anti-Discrimination Against Israel Act."

“While dealing with the immediate impact of the coronavirus on both the Latino and Jewish communities, we must also consider the implications on concerns that have long topped our shared agenda,” said Dina Siegel Vann, AJC Director of Latino and Latin American Affairs.

Viewers across the United States, and in at least 45 other countries around the world, are logging on to watch AJC Advocacy Anywhere, which begins its eighth week of conversations with diplomats, political figures, policy analysts, and AJC staff experts on pressing issues. “In response to heavy demand, we are continuing to offer timely and topical online programs to an ever-expanding global audience,” said AJC CEO David Harris. “More than 1.6 million viewers have watched our programs to date.”

Today, in a virtual briefing, more than 125 participants from the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), members of their staff and others, discussed with Israeli elections officials how to keep polling places safe, and ensure voter turnout during the coronavirus pandemic. In partnership with American Jewish Committee’s (AJC) Project Interchange, the Israeli officials participating were Israeli Central Elections Committee Director-General Orly Adas and Chief Legal Counsel Dean Livne.

AJC Advocacy Anywhere programs are attracting hundreds of thousands of viewers from more than 45 countries worldwide every week. Since the programming began on March 20, more than 1.2 million viewers in total have logged on to watch.

The report, Antisemitism: A Persistent Threat to Human Rights, and its annex survey incidents of antisemitic expression and violence in countries around the world from October 2019 to April 2020, both before and since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The JBI report comes six months after an unprecedented report by a United Nations expert recognizing global antisemitism as a serious human rights challenge.

Largely unseen by western publics, a humanitarian catastrophe is playing out in Iran. Almost no country has been hit harder by the coronavirus than the Islamic Republic.

American Jewish Committee (AJC), the global advocacy organization, praised Germany’s decision today to ban Hezbollah’s activities on the country’s soil, determining that the organization in its entirety is engaged in terrorist activity. The government’s action will ban all activity, prohibit public display of all symbols, and confiscate all assets of Hezbollah in Germany.

More than one million people have watched Advocacy Anywhere programs since American Jewish Committee (AJC) launched the online series on March 20. “Advocacy Anywhere offers insightful, probing conversations with leading diplomats, political figures, and policy analysts on issues of top concern to Jews and others across the United States and around the world,” said AJC CEO David Harris.

“The robust interest in our online education, advocacy, and diplomacy inspires us to develop fresh programs each week,” said AJC CEO David Harris. “And with a social media platform of over 2.3 million followers, our global reach continues to expand.”

In the Jewish tradition, we are commanded to remember (zachor) and not to forget (lo tishkach). This week we commemorate Yom HaShoah, the Day of Holocaust Remembrance.

The video presents the basic facts about the Holocaust, as well as the stories of Muslims and Arabs who played an active role during that dark period.

American Jewish Committee (AJC) praised the U.S. Attorney’s Office for successfully appealing a judge’s decision to allow a man accused of plotting a violent attack on a Jewish assisted-living facility to stay at home until his trial.

The rich menu of American Jewish Committee (AJC) Advocacy Anywhere online conversations, probing hot topics in the news, continues to draw hundreds of thousands of viewers around the world.

The popular online American Jewish Committee (AJC) Advocacy Anywhere sessions have surpassed half a million viewers across the United States and around the world.

Holly Huffnagle has been appointed U.S. Director for Combating Antisemitism at the American Jewish Committee (AJC).