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).