Press Releases and Statements

Twenty-two prominent U.S. Christian leaders are in Jerusalem for the final phase of an intensive 13-month educational program on Judaism and Israel, part of the Christian Leadership Initiative (CLI), a partnership of AJC and the Shalom Hartman Institute.

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 denounced the United Church of Christ (UCC) for adopting a resolution that criticizes Israel but ignores Palestinian leadership responsibility for the human rights of Palestinian children.

An AJC senior leadership delegation met with Rwanda President Paul Kagame and Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo during a four-day visit to the African country.

AJC is urging Israeli lawmakers to reject a bill that will fortify the Orthodox monopoly on conversions conducted in Israel. Knesset consideration of the measure is expected after the Israeli Cabinet endorsed it.

AJC is calling on UNESCO World Heritage Committee member states to reject a proposal to register the Old City of Hebron and the Cave of the Patriarchs to the “State of Palestine,” and to add them to the List of World Heritage in Danger.

AJC welcomed the United States Supreme Court decision to hear oral argument on the legality of President Trump’s Executive Order of March 6, limiting admission of immigrants from six predominantly Muslim countries.

AJC voices its strong disagreement with the remarks offered by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in which he described the wartime Fascist leader, Miklos Horthy, as an “exceptional statesman.”

AJC is appalled that several Jewish participants in a gay pride parade in Chicago were told to leave the event because their flags had the Jewish Star of David.

AJC is deeply disappointed by today’s decision of the Israeli government to withdraw from the plan to establish an egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall (Kotel).

AJC praised the growing number of UN Human Rights Council member states that joined with Israel and the United States in not attending or not speaking at Monday’s discussion of agenda item #7.

AJC, the global Jewish advocacy organization, mourns the passing of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. He was 87 years old.

AJC welcomed the Department of Homeland Security announcement that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program will continue.

JC is deeply concerned that Secretary of State Tillerson, despite his department’s previous commitment to fill the positon of Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, may actually eliminate it.

AJC, the global Jewish advocacy organization, praised the U.S. Senate for adopting the Countering Iran’s Destabilizing Activities Act, and urged prompt action by the House and the administration to ensure that this important bill becomes law.

AJC, the global Jewish advocacy organization, applauded the U.S. Senate for passing a bipartisan plan to codify existing Russian sanctions and require the President to obtain congressional approval to waive or remove any sanctions against Russia.

AJC welcomed Secretary of State Tillerson’s comments today that the Palestinian Authority, responding to U.S. pressure, will end its longstanding practice of financially rewarding terrorists and their families.

AJC, at its Global Forum, presented the Unity Award to three religious leaders -- Rabbi Dov Haiyun, Amir Muhammad Sharif Ode, and Father Yousef Yakoub – for their extraordinary demonstration of brotherhood in response to the devastating forest fires in Haifa, Israel, in November 2016 that left 70,000 people homeless.

The Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council today urged members of Congress to pass the Protecting Religiously Affiliated Institutions Act of 2017.