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OP-ED BY: Lee S. Bender ZOA Philly Leader Spearheads Effort to Honor Liberators Who Re-Birthed Israel

It is no secret that the eyewitnesses to the Nazi death camps — the liberators from the U.S. and Allied armies — are quickly dying off. They did their duty, most having no clue that the devastation and utter horror they would witness would linger with them permanently.    The mahalniks, the 4,000 volunteers from […]

Of Jewish Leadership and Chicken S**T

Recently, on October 27, we at the ZOA celebrated the release of an important film documentary by Gloria Greenfield, entitled “Body and Soul”. In a festive, gala North American premiere, 750 people watched an eloquent encapsulation of Jewish and Zionist history, explaining and justifying the very reasons for the existence of the Jewish state. No […]

‘Open Hillel’ Legitimizes Anti-Semitism

Published October 14, 2014 Some Jews fought with the Greeks and Romans against their fellow Jews. Some sympathized with the crusades and the pogroms. Some Jews even supported the Nazis leading up to World War II. The story is no different today. There is still a very small – but vocal – minority of Jews […]

OP-ED BY: Morton Klein and Daniel Mandel ZOA Op-ed in Jerusalem Post on Ineffectiveness of International Peacekeepers

Published 10/06/2014 23:02 In recent days, a small fixture of Middle East cease-fire monitoring disintegrated, with scarcely anyone noticing. The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), the multinational force that had monitored the Israeli/Syrian cease-fire lines since 1974, disappeared as though it had never existed. Yet, in the view of US Secretary of State John […]

Time to Move On, Op-ed

As the director of a proudly Zionist organization, it isn’t often I can say that I agree with the Palestinian Authority’s anti-Semitic, terrorism-sponsoring, Holocaust-denying, opposition-squashing dictator Mahmoud Abbas. Indeed, his “genocide speech,” as Abbas’s UN speech on erev Rosh Hashanah has come to be known in Israel, was replete with stunning fabrications and age-old libels. […]

OP-ED BY: Mort Klein & Dan Mandel ZOA Op-ed in American Thinker About UN Troops Protecting Israel

Published October 2, 2014 In recent days, a small fixture of Middle East ceasefire monitoring disintegrated, with scarcely anyone noticing. The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), the multinational force that had monitored the Israeli/Syrian ceasefire lines since 1974, disappeared as though it had never existed. Yet, in the view of Secretary of State John […]

Compared to Iran, ISIS is a ‘Junior Varsity’ Team

Published by Algemeiner October 5, 2014 10:16 PM Last month, in a primetime national address, President Obama laid out his four-pronged strategy to “degrade and ultimately destroy ISIS.” The U.S. military has already begun to carry out the President’s directive; airstrikes against ISIS positions in Iraq have increased and we can likely expect a prolonged […]

Government Relations: September Congressional Hearing on Qatar Funding of Hamas

ZOA National President, Mort Klein, tasked the Government Relations Department with bringing more attention to the problem of Qatar and its support for Hamas. Concrete steps were proposed to punish Qatar.  At a Congressional Hearing on September 9, 25 members of Congress from both parties focused on this issue, and many used the exact talking […]

Mort Klein interviewed on Arab War against Israel on Shalom TV

ZOA President, Morton Klein gives a candid interview with Rabbi Mark Golub, pulling no punches, about the Arab war against Israel on Shalom TV

ZOA’s Daniel Mandel owns Palestinian Journalist on Gaza hostilities

Historian, Publicist and Fellow in History at Melbourne University (Australia), Middle East Policy Expert Professor Daniel Mandel along with Independent Palestinian- based Journalist Yousef Al-Helou who spoke to us on the highly controversial Israel/Gaza Conflict.