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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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.