The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) urges the termination of U.S.-taxpayer-funding of Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA), following Abbas’ call this week for the creation off a temporary national unity government with Hamas, the U.S.- and European Union-recognized terrorist group. Hamas, responsible for scores of suicide bombings in Israel, the murder of several hundreds of […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein issued the following urgent statement: ZOA urges President Obama and UN Ambassador Samantha Power to veto the (now postponed) anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, anti-peace, racist resolution that the UN Security Council (UNSC) had initially planned to vote on today.   The proposed resolution would make all of the Jewish […]

Zionist Organization of America President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: President-elect Donald Trump’s excellent nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, deserves to be confirmed by the Senate.   Mr. Friedman is one of our nation’s leading attorneys, speaks fluent Hebrew, has a home in Jerusalem, has made a life-long study of Middle […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: At the White House Hanukkah Party on Wednesday afternoon (December 14, 2016), President Obama began his remarks by stating: “Today in the White House, as you will soon do in your homes, we recall Hanukkah’s many lessons:  How a small group can […]

My friend David Friedman has the potential to be the greatest US Ambassador to Israel ever. He thoroughly understands the detailed tragic reality of the Arab/Islamic war against Israel. He has a powerful grasp of Israel’s defense needs, the dangers they face, and the danger now of a Hamas/PA State. No previous ambassador appreciates the […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: Eleven Jewish organizations have hurt and embarrassed the President-elect and Azerbaijan – a friendly Muslim country with an excellent relationship with Israel and Azerbaijan’s local Jewish population who this week hosted Israeli PM Netanyahu– when those 11 organizations boycotted the Hanukkah party […]

Pro-Israel organizations had mixed reactions to president-elect Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of state, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, who has spent years forging deep ties with Sunni Arab Gulf states but has an unknown record when it comes to Israel. “Mr. Tillerson has distinguished himself in the management of one of the world’s premier corporations. […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: A Muslim-Jewish organization could be a wonderful idea – if it had the right goals and the right partners – namely, Zionist Jews and Reformist Muslims dedicated to ending BDS; ending rampant harassment and attacks on Jewish students by organized radical Islamist […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) organized four other partner organizations to call on Kent State University to stick with its decision to retain a university display featuring Golda Meir, despite ongoing threats and accusations from the so-called anti-Semitic “Students for Justice in Palestine” (SJP) group on campus and its allies.  The display contains a […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) strongly praised the U.S. Senate for unanimously passing the bipartisan “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act” on December 1, 2016 – introduced by U.S. Senators Tim Scott (R-SC) and Bob Casey (D-PA) on November 29th – which will improve the enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights to protect Jewish students […]