Press Releases and Statements

Religion is playing an increasingly pervasive role in Indonesia, threatening its national ideology, a tradition of pluralism, inclusiveness, moderation, and tolerance that is known as Pancasila.

AJC, the global Jewish advocacy organization, is supporting IsraAID in response to the impact of volcanic eruptions on Ambae Island in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu.

An American Jewish Committee (AJC) delegation has concluded a visit to Singapore.

An AJC leadership delegation has just concluded a three-day mission to Australia. The visit included stops in Canberra, the nation’s capital, and Melbourne.

AJC, the global Jewish advocacy organization, mourns the passing of its former Los Angeles director, Neil Sandberg.

Sandberg was the founding director of the AJC Pacific Rim Institute (APRI) in 1989, which later was renamed the Asia Pacific Institute (API), the first of its kind in the American Jewish community.

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.

An AJC delegation is visiting New Delhi, coinciding with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's six-day visit to India, where he has been warmly received by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Indian public in Agra, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, and New Delhi.

An AJC leadership delegation concluded nine days of consultations with senior government officials, policy analysts, business leaders, high-ranking military officers, U.S. diplomats, journalists and other interlocutors in several Arabian Gulf states.

An 11-member AJC leadership delegation just concluded a three-day visit to the Republic of Korea's capital.

AJC and its Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights (JBI) joined 56 other NGOs in a letter to Secretary of State Tillerson and Secretary of the Treasury Mnuchin urging U.S. action in response to the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslims in Burma.

A 14-member AJC leadership delegation just concluded a three-day visit to Japan.

An AJC delegation has just concluded a three-day visit to China.

An AJC delegation led by Associate Executive Director for Policy Jason Isaacson, accompanied by Asia Pacific Institute Director Shira Loewenberg, concluded a visit to Colombo, following a successful visit to New Delhi earlier this week.

An AJC delegation has concluded a visit to New Delhi celebrating the warm and vigorous relationship between India and the United States, and the increasingly close Israel-India ties, marked most recently by Prime Minister Modi's successful visit to Jerusalem in early July.

AJC, the global Jewish advocacy organization, is supporting IsraAID in responding to the devastating floods and landslides that left at least 120 dead and affected over six million people in Nepal.

A decades-long AJC initiative to establish a trilateral alliance of India, Israel and the United States took historic steps toward fulfillment this week with the visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Israel, where he received an AJC delegation joined by Indian American leaders and Israeli and Indian policy analysts.

AJC praised President Trump for ordering a U.S. military strike on a Syrian airbase following the Assad regime’s fatal chemical weapons attack earlier this week.

Two ancient civilisations, two post-colonial states, two democracies, two centres of culture and faith, two nations with vibrant global diasporas: it was only natural that India and Israel would forge not only diplomatic relations, but a unique and enduring partnership.