The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) expressed its support for the nomination of Kenneth L. Marcus to serve as the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education, and urged that his nomination be confirmed as soon as possible.  The Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights heads the Office for Civil Rights, whose […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has  called upon President Donald Trump to honor his pre-election promise to move the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Israel’s capital, Jerusalem, and not to exercise the presidential waiver in the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy law that has enabled successive presidents to defer this move for six […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: The ZOA has just learned that one of the most antisemitic plays of all time, Christopher Marlowe’s “The Jew of Malta” (written in 1565) is scheduled to be performed in a few days at the Center for Jewish History (CJH) headed by […]

November 29, 1947 — seventy years ago today — was a momentous day in Jewish history. Jews throughout the world sat glued to their radios, listening as the United Nations General Assembly voted for UNGA Resolution 181 (often referred to as the “partition resolution”). The Jewish community celebrated the resolution’s passage, for it confirmed that […]

On November 7, 2017, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing examining anti-Semitism on college campuses.  The ZOA’s letter to the Committee was included in the record of the hearing.  The text of the letter is below.    Dear Chairman Goodlatte, Ranking Member Conyers, and Honorable Members of the House Judiciary Committee:             On behalf […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has opposed the Trump Administration not going forward, as initially claimed, to close the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office in Washington, D.C., which ignores continuing Palestinian Authority (PA) violations of the Oslo Accords.These violations require that the PLO office be shuttered.  The PLO office was opened in 2010 during […]

On June 30, 2016, a 17-year-old Palestinian-Arab teenage terrorist broke into the home of an American Jewish family in Kiryat Arba, Israel, and deliberately, brutally stabbed to death a young innocent 13-year-old Jewish-American-Israeli girl who was sleeping in her bed, Hallel Yaffa Ariel.  The Palestinian-Arab teenage terrorist then inflicted multiple stab wounds on a Jewish […]

JBS presents a 2-hour special from the annual Zionist Organization of America Gala of 2017 featuring U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, Prof. Alan Dershowitz, former Sen. Joe Lieberman, Mort Klein, Sen. Tom Cotton and Steve Bannon. ABC’s Rita Cosby hosts the evening and the Gala is followed by interviews with David Friedman, Ken Abramowitz, […]

Ms. Sarsour is back in the news again, due to The New School’s plan to feature Ms. Sarsour on a panel later this month, that the New York Post aptly described as follows: “It’s the very definition of Orwellian: a panel titled “Anti-Semitism and the Struggle for Justice” that’s actually meant to promote Israel-bashing.” (“The […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised the Anti-Defamation League’s head Jonathan Greenblatt for his forthright and apt criticism of New York’s The New School for inviting as a panelist on the subject of  ‘Antisemitism and the Struggle for Justice’, the anti-Israel terrorist praising Linda Sarsour. Greenblatt’s declaration is especially needed and important since […]