American Jewish Committee

Columbia’s Hillel director: What do we do about antisemitism on campus?

A Jewish student’s experience on campus should not be defined by antisemitism, but rather by the support they receive when such incidents occur.

One demonstrator fixes another head scarf outside the pro-Palestine encampment on the Columbia University campus on April 29, 2024 in New York City.
Panelists speak onstage during the 25th Atlanta Jewish Film Festival’s ‘Bad Shabbos’ opening night premiere at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, Georgia, last week.

Jewish Atlanta showed how communities confront institutional failure on Israel - opinion

Demonstrators hold US and Israeli flags during a rally in Central Park marking 150 days since hostages were taken in attack on Israel on March 10, 2024 in New York City.

Over half of American Jews altered behavior due to antisemitism in 2025 - poll

The United Arab Emirates’ Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan met with leaders of the American Jewish Committee, February 5, 2026.

UAE hosts American Jewish Committee on sidelines of World Governments Summit


Strong Jewish identities will safeguard Israel's future

Our Common Destiny Project: Strengthening Jewish Identity

Participants carry Israeli flags at the 'Celebrate Israel'' parade along Fifth Avenue in New York City in 2017

It's time to leave our differences aside and connect

Our Common Destiny Project: Responsibility for Each Other (Comradery)

A BINA participant teaches a child as part of the social action program

Arabic video on Jewish ties to Jerusalem aims to foster co-existence

The video is the fourth released by the AJC as part of its Arabic-language series "An al-Yahud," ("About the Jews"), which aims to build engagement between Arabs and Jews.

A general view of Jerusalem as seen from the Mount of Olives shows the Dome of the Rock, located in Jerusalem's Old City on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, June 21, 2018

Muslim World League head responds to criticism after attending AJC event

He added further, covering his tracks even more, that the MWL will not come to the table with anyone "who caused harm to Muslims" (i.e. Israel).

Dr. Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Issa, Secretary-General of the Muslim World League (MWL)

San Francisco JCC lays off 150 employees, slashes budget by more than 40%

According to a letter to the public released on Monday afternoon, since the JCC closed on March 13 just days ahead of the city’s mandatory shelter-in-place order, it has seen a 98 percent decline in

Inscriptions on the wall of the main lobby of the JCC of San Francisco. (Joyce Goldschmid)

Vote for ZOA Coalition if you believe in defending Israel and the Jewish people

The Zionist Organization of America was the only U.S. group at the very first World Zionist Congress in Basel


Jewish group launches Arabic-language video series about Judaism

The AJC seeks to directly engage hundreds of millions of Arabic-speakers in the world, "laying the foundation, we hope, for deeper ties between Jews and Arabs in the future," says AJC CEO.

David Harris

Unelected ‘leaders’ can’t represent American Jewry

Among the current leaders of prominent American Jewish or Zionist nonprofit organizations, there are 10 who have held the same position for 30 or more years.

‘WHAT ARE the effects, in Israel, in the US, and the rest of the world, of the perceived opinions of American Jewry?’

On My Mind: Unexpected alliances

“We must learn to work through the tensions that threaten to divide us, so that we can yield the fruit of working on a common agenda,” says Ari Gordon, AJC’s US director of Muslim-Jewish relations.

‘WHAT SEPARATES American Jews and Israel is, well, everything... [yet] we ought to celebrate those differences, not bemoan them.’

How the German Green party made Iranian antisemitism politically correct - analysis

Green party Bundestag Vice President Claudia Roth zealously greeted the speaker of Iran’s ersatz parliament, Ali Larijani.

Bundestag Vice President Claudia Roth (Green Party), Dagmar Wöhrl (Christian Social Union party) are the two women on the right