Category ZOA in the news
Arutz Sheva Cites ZOA as Associate Producer of New Pro-Israel Film Showing in NYC Oct. 27

By: Prof. Phyllis Chesler Published: Monday, October 13, 2014 10:11 AM Gloria Z. Greenfield’s third film, Body and Soul: The State of the Jewish Nation, is a cinematic and educational triumph. In only 65 minutes, the viewer comes to understand who the Jews are to the land of Israel and what the land of Israel is to […]

U.C. Takes Stand Against BDS Advocacy in Classroom

Published by J.Weekly Thursday, October 9, 2014 The Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Zionist Organization of America and 10 other Jewish advocacy groups are applauding a letter from a high-ranking University of California official that they say protects the well-being of Jewish students. The letter to U.C. chancellors from provost Aimée Dorr, executive vice president for academic […]

Mort Klein Letter In NYTimes About Bill Cosby

Published October 10, 2014 A Comedian and a Scholar To the Editor: Bill Cosby may not have been “a slacker, a dropout or even a drinker,” as Neil Drumming writes in his review of Mark Whitaker’s new biography(Sept. 21). But he did leave my high school, Central High School of Philadelphia, then a magnet school for […]

ZOA Presses Nike on Refusal to Address Video Ad with Anti-Semitic Overtones

Posted on October 12, 2014 By Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org After initially raising concern on the issue this summer, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is continuing to press the Nike footwear and apparel giant to remedy its promotion of a pre-World Cup animated video whose content has what critics call anti-Semitic overtones. ZOA initially wrote to Nike on […]

Forward Article Quotes ZOA’s Mort Klein Remarks at D.C. Pro-Israel Rally

Published October 06, 2014. Benjamin Netanyahu’s comparison between ISIS and Hamas, repeated in recent weeks from every podium in the U.S. and in every TV network interview, gained little traction with the Obama administration which made clear it does not see the two terror groups as equal. But it resonated well with at least one audience: Christian supporters of […]

ZOA Israel Director Jeff Daube’s TLV1 Radio Interview, ‘Bibi’s UN address’

All eyes were on New York as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his major address to the United Nations, which kind pundits called “vintage” and less generous observers called “warmed-over shtick.” Jeff Daube, Israel director of the Zionist Organization of America, says that Netanyahu was effective in sending a strong message, communicating to the world the […]

Washington Times Notes ZOA’s Mort Klein Key Speaker at Huckabee Rally in Wash. D.C.

 The Washington Times – Saturday, October 4, 2014 The insistent evangelical voice will ring out soon, and very close to the U.S. Capitol building. Scheduled for Sunday afternoon in Upper Senate Park, it’s the Rally for Israel, organized primarily by potential White House hopeful Mike Huckabee and Penny Nance, president of Concerned Women for America. “It’s time for the […]

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 […]

Arutz Sheva: ZOA Letter Campaign Urges US Universities to Protect Jewish Students

First Publish: 10/1/2014, 11:00 PM By Cynthia Blank A group of fourteen diverse organizations have banded together to deliver a letter to more than 2,500 US colleges and universities urging such institutions to protect Jewish students on campus in lieu of rising anti-Semitism across the globe.  The organizations include: Alpha Epsilon Pi, AMCHA Initiative, American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, Americans for […]

Former U.S. Attorney General, Daniel Pearl’s Father Speak Out Against ‘Klinghoffer’

Wednesday, October 1, 2014 — The cool elegance of the Metropolitan Opera’s opening night, precursor to a controversial season featuring John Adams’ “The Death of Klinghoffer,” was countered this week by a heated Jewish protest outside Lincoln Center.               An estimated crowd of 1,500 to 2,000, according to the protest’s organizers, were effusive in their […]