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American Jewish Committee Chief Policy and Political Affairs Officer Jason Isaacson wrote to members of the UN Human Rights Council, advocating for continued investigations of human rights abuses by Iran and Russia.

A bipartisan group of mayors has returned from Israel as part of a joint delegation sponsored by American Jewish Committee (AJC) Project Interchange and the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
The intensive program, which ran from March 17-22, enabled the mayors to gain first-hand knowledge of the situation in Israel at a time when the nation continues to confront ongoing terror attacks and threats from the Iranian regime and its proxies on multiple fronts and grapples with the fate of the 59 hostages still being held in Gaza by Hamas.

UN Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, who has a long history of espousing vile antisemitism, attacked AJC a recent interview in Ireland. AJC CEO Ted Deutch responds to her outrageous claims.

In late 2024, Israel closed its embassy in Dublin, accusing the Irish government of extreme anti-Israel policies, antisemitic rhetoric, and double standards. Meanwhile, the small Jewish community in Ireland, numbering nearly 3,000, has faced antisemitism in the streets. AJC’s Director of International Jewish Affairs, Rabbi Andrew Baker, joins us to discuss his recent meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin, examples of antisemitic activity in Ireland, including Holocaust inversion and the chilling impact of widespread anti-Israel sentiment on Irish Jews.

As global threats evolve, so do the challenges of safeguarding New York’s—and global—Jewry. At AJC New York’s latest Critical Conversations program, Rebecca Weiner, Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence & Counterterrorism at the New York Police Department, spoke candidly about the shifting security landscape, the risks facing Jewish institutions, and how law enforcement is adapting to an increasingly complex threat environment.