Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: The ZOA calls upon former Democratic National Chair Howard Dean to retract and apologize to President-elect Trump’s appointee Stephen Bannon for absurdly and disgracefully calling Mr. Bannon a “Nazi,” anti-Semitic and other untrue epithets on CNN-Canada on Sunday, November 20, 2016.  When […]

Over 1200 people attended the Zionist Organization of America’s (ZOA) 118th Louis B. Brandeis Award National Dinner on Sunday, November 20 at New York City’s elegant Grand Hyatt Hotel. Major ZOA donors provided tables for 255 student activists from various universities and colleges around the country.   Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, His Excellency […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: The ZOA is concerned about the potential appointment of Marine General James Mattis as Secretary of Defense, and urges that Mattis not be appointed. Mattis’s statements at a 2013 Aspen Institute conference were hostile to Israel, and revealed a lack of appreciation […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]