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ZOA: Correcting the Record About Abe Foxman’s False Statement About ZOA Gala Dinner

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: ZOA urges former ADL Director Abe Foxman to publicly correct his false accusations that ZOA misled Mr. Foxman regarding ZOA’s gala dinner, that took place Sunday, November 20, 2016.  Mr. Foxman claims he wanted to come ZOA’s Dinner because his friend Home […]

ZOA: Don’t Appoint Israel-Basher Cong. Keith Ellison Chair of the Democratic National Committee

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: As a bi-partisan organization, the ZOA treasures opportunities to work with lawmakers and opinion makers on “both side of the aisle.”   Alarmingly, Congressional bipartisanship on pro-Israel issues, as well as on issues related to U.S. security, is likely to be immeasurably harmed […]

ZOA Criticizes ADL for Falsely Alleging Trump Advisor Bannon is Anti-Semitic

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: It is painful to see Anti-Defamation League (ADL) president Jonathan Greenblatt engaging in character assassination against President-elect Trump’s appointee Stephen Bannon and Mr. Bannon’s company, Breitbart media.  ADL/Greenblatt essentially accused Mr. Bannon and his media company of “anti-Semitism” and Israel hatred, when […]

ZOA Urges Apology After Labor’s Herzog Called Judea/Samaria, E. Jerusalem Jews, a ‘Virus’

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the remarks of Israeli Opposition and Zionist Union head, Isaac Herzog, for describing “settlers” – Jews living in communities beyond the 1949 armistice lines in Judea/Samaria –– as a “virus.”  The Opposition Leader made his remark while speaking in opposition to draft law that would apply the […]

ZOA Congratulates President-Elect Donald J. Trump, Vice President-Elect Mike Pence, Families, Advisers and Teams

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein issued the following statement: The Zionist Organization of America happily congratulates President-Elect Donald J. Trump, Vice President-Elect Mike Pence, their beautiful families, their national advisers, their Israel advisory co-chairs Jason Dov Greenblatt and David Friedman, and the entire Trump/Pence campaign team on their historic victory last […]

ZOA Ad in NYTimes (10/29): Will Obama Betray Israel at UN?

Wikileaks recently exposed an email written by former White House official Stuart Eisenstadt that discussed the Obama administration’s deteriorating relationship with Israel and warned that: “There is a distinct possibility that the Administration may seek a UN Security Council Resolution embodying the two-state, with [pre-] 1967 lines and agreed land swaps, and some vague statements […]

ZOA Praises Federations for Lifting Ban on Visiting Judea/Samaria

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), the umbrella organization which includes the Council of Jewish Federations, the United Jewish Appeal and the United Israel Appeal, for ending a 50-year old ban on permitting its representatives to conduct official visits to Jewish communities in Judea/Samaria. Six hundred […]

ZOA to Park Slope Food Coop: Reinstate Members Who Opposed Anti-Israel Boycott

BY EMAIL AND FIRST-CLASS MAIL Park Slope Food Coop 782 Union Street Brooklyn, NY  11215 Dear Sir/Madam: We write to urge the Park Slope Food Coop (the “Coop”) to lift the one-year suspension that was imposed last April on four longstanding members of the Coop – as well as on the members of their respective […]

ZOA Condemns UNESCO Resolution Denying Jewish Identity & Name of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the resolution passed by the 21-member World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) by a vote of 10 to two with eight abstentions and one absence, airbrushing from history and thus denying Judaism and the Jewish people’s historic connection to Jerusalem’s […]

ZOA Urges President-Elect Trump to Condemn Alt-Right Leader for “Hail Trump” Chant and Other Anti-Semitism at Alt-Right Conference

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly denounced the revolting Jew-hatred displayed at an alt-right conference last Saturday in Washington, D.C., and called on President-Elect Donald Trump to publicly and specifically condemn it.  At the conference, Richard Spencer, the leader of the alt-right movement, engaged in Nazi-like chants that included “Hail Trump” and, in […]