BLOG BY: Ben Chouake MD (Dr Ben) VP ZOA

Op-Ed: Keith Ellison and the DNC: A Troubling Pick for America’s Oldest Political Party
Date: 12.13.16

I have been involved in federal elections for about 50 years. I recall as a student advocating first for Humphrey and then McGovern when they ran against Nixon. Still vivid to me is when I got the news that Nixon won on the radio of my old Dodge Dart, I gripped the steering wheel in […]

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BLOG BY: Susan B. Tuchman, Esq. and Morton A. Klein

NY Jewish Week ZOA Op-Ed: Brooklyn Food Coop – Stop Punishing Those Fighting BDS
Date: 12.01.16

When the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn was founded in 1973, it had a worthy mission: to make healthy and affordable food available to everyone who wanted it. But recently, the Coop appears to have lost its way. In April, it suspended four loyal, long-time members for a whole year – three of them […]

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Facts on Israel Website Offering the Truth, Unfiltered
Date: 11.30.16

Philadelphia, PA:  The homeland right of no people on earth is more misunderstood than that of the Jewish people to their homeland of Israel.  This is partly because the mainstream media has adopted the Jewish homeland-delegitimizing language of Israel’s foes, but also in part because well-meaning supporters of Israel ourselves unthinkingly use these terms.  Both […]

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BLOG BY: Morton A. Klein and Susan B. Tuchman, Esq.

ZOA JTA Article on Fighting Campus Anti-Semitism
Date: 09.19.16

Last week, the chancellor of The City University of New York released a report by CUNY-hired outside counsel investigating allegations of campus anti-Semitism. The investigation was triggered by a 14-page letter from the Zionist Organization of America to CUNY’s leadership, which noted, among other incidents, how during a rally last November held by Students for […]

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SOURCE: Tshediso Mangope

I’m a South African Activist Who Used to Fight Against Israel—Until I Went There – The Tower
Date: 12.13.16

As a black South African and member of the African National Congress (ANC), I have often heard the accusation that Israel is an apartheid state—and therefore a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has to be based on a single state of Palestine between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. I recently made a […]

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SOURCE: Steve Emerson

Emerson: DNC Chair Hopeful Ellison Blasts Israel Influence, Praises/Supports Radical Islamists, Opposes Undivided Jerusalem and More
Date: 11.30.16

U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison’s announced earlier this month that he wants to be the Democratic National Committee Chair.. A 2010 audio of Ellison speaking at a private fundraiser obtained by the Investigative Project on Terrorism calls such praise into question. In a fairly intimate setting, Ellison lashed out at what he sees as Israel’s disproportionate […]

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