The Icelandic lawmaker who proposed a controversial ban on circumcision told The Algemeiner in an interview this week that her bill does not violate religious freedom. Silja Dögg Gunnarsdóttir of the Progressive party recently introduced the legislation in the Icelandic Parliament, where it is currently being debated. It proposes a blanket ban on male circumcision […]

The original article was posted in Detroit Jewish News.

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is appalled by the bill put forward in the Althing, the Icelandic parliament, which would ban brit mila (Jewish ritual circumcision) in the country. The law, proposed by eight members of the country’s 63-seat parliament, including members from the the Progressive Party (the junior coalition partner in the incumbent government) and […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised Congressional efforts now afoot to remove the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and to cut off U.S. funding to the body, currently $23 million annually. The resolution, which reaffirms U.S. support for Israel and condemns the UNHRC for wasteful and abusive actions, […]

The news is abuzz with the decision of the United States to withhold 65 million dollars from the United Nations Relief Agency (“UNRWA”) that was created supposedly to help Palestinian Arab refugees. Like many United Nations activities, this so-called “relief agency” was set up for the wrong reasons and has become a tool of third […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the passage in the Polish Senate of a law which would criminalize those accusing the Polish nation or state of complicity in the Holocaust. The bill passed the Polish upper house by a vote of 57 to 23 with two abstentions and must be signed into law […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement, in response to President Donald Trump’s interview by Israel Hayom Editor-in-Chief Boaz Bismuth (“Trump to Israel Hayom: The Palestinians are Not Looking to Make Peace,” Boaz Bismuth, Israel Hayom, Feb. 11, 2018.) The Zionist Organization of America has often praised President Trump’s […]

ZOA’s president Morton Klein and ZOA’s Director of Special Projects, Liz Berney, Esq. released the following statement: The depths to which Jewish Israel-haters sink is extraordinary. Their anti-Israel venality, “anything goes” falsehoods and lack of any compassion for their Israeli Jewish brethren who are innocent victims of Arab terror, are mind-boggling.  The latest example of […]

ZOA strongly mourns the passing of a longtime friend, member of the Zionist Organization of America’s National Board, and great pro-Israel activist Congressman Jon Fox (R-PA). U.S. Congressman Fox served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995-1999. Prior to that he was a member of the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has noted that Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA), despite President Donald Trump’s calls last year to cease its incitement to hatred and murder against Israel, is continuing its anti-peace, pro-terror policies, such as continuing to produce maps, atlases, plaques and diagrams that depict ‘Palestine’ as encompassing all of Israel, […]