Category Press Release
ZOA Urges Jewish and Other Groups to Call for Sarsour/Berger Dismissal From Sanders & Warren Campaigns

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Chairman Mark Levenson, Esq. released the following statement: Horrifyingly, the race for the presidency seems to be turning into a race to the bottom, to see who can hire the worst antisemitic Israelophobic bigots. It is particularly painful that Jewish Senator Bernie Sanders is (again, […]

ZOA Applauds Israeli PM Netanyahu’s Sovereignty Pledge

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein, ZOA Chairman Mark Levenson, Esq., and ZOA Director of Special Projects Elizabeth Berney, Esq. released the following statement: The Zionist Organization of America applauds Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s pledge to apply Israeli sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria.  ZOA also praises PM Netanyahu for his important observation […]

ZOA Honored That President Trump Appointed ZOA Chairman Mark Levenson to Prestigious National Post

Zionist Organization of America National President Mort Klein issued the following statement: The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is very proud to announce that Mark Levenson, Chairman of ZOA’s national board, will be appointed by President Donald Trump to serve as a member of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad.  “On […]

ZOA to Trump: Allow Jerusalem-Born Americans to List “Israel” on Their Passports

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) praised the Trump administration today for considering permitting U.S. citizens born in Jerusalem to list “Israel” as their birthplace on their U.S. passports, and strongly urged the administration to authorize that listing as soon as possible. In an interview published last Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told […]

ZOA Forming a New More Effective Pro-Israel Program for Millennials

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Chairman Mark Levenson, Esq. released the following statement: The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) will no longer be sponsoring Fuel For Truth (FFT) as a part of the ZOA, following a parting of the ways due to an increasing divergence of policy views. Our […]

Jewish Standard Article on ZOA’s Klein’s Upcoming Speech in Teaneck, NJ

Activist Morton A. Klein, the longtime president of the Zionist Organization of America, does not mince words. And when he offers his strong opinions about Israel and anti-Semitism, he’s ready with facts and figures to buttress his claims. For example, in discussing BDS — the movement, flourishing on college campuses, that seeks to discourage people […]

ZOA JPost Letter: ZOA is Pro-Israel, J Street is Anti-Israel

ZOA and JStreet: No comparison Your article about the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (CoP) (“Who is William Daroff, the Next CEO of the Conference of Presidents?” August 6) falsely and inaccurately states that the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) was “accepted” into the CoP. The ZOA was not voted into the […]

Brown University Professor Lecture to ZOA Leadership on the Scourge of Islamic Antisemitism

Brown University Professor Dr. Andrew Bostom gave a presentation for the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), Tuesday, July 30, 2019, entitled, “The Rising Scourge of Islamic Antisemitism”. Dr. Bostom summarized extensive, and unprecedented Anti-Defamation League (ADL) survey data revealing the current disproportionate 2.0 to 4.5-fold excess of extreme Antisemitism amongst Muslims vs. all other religious […]

JPost’s Leibler: ZOA Almost Alone Among Establishment In Defending Israel

Over the past decade, the Jewish establishment leadership in America – with the exception of the Orthodox, the Zionist Organization of America, and other small groups – has failed to speak up in defense of Israel and imposed a curtain of silence. This became blatantly evident during the presidency of Barack Obama, who diplomatically related […]

ZOA Urges NY Times: Fire & Investigate Antisemitic, Racist NYT Senior Editor Tom Wright-Persanti

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein, ZOA Chairman Mark Levenson, Esq. and ZOA Director of Special Projects Liz Berney, Esq. released the following statement: The Zionist Organization of America urges the New York Times to fire its Senior Staff Editor Tom Wright-Piersanti, in light of Wright-Piersanti’s antisemitic and racist tweets that were recently uncovered. Further, we urge […]