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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

In the wake of the disgraceful, flat-earth resolution passed by the the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to declare Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and other major Jewish historical/religious sites as primarily or exclusively Muslim, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed to an extraordinary little-known fact that Islam itself has historically admitted […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: The ZOA was pleased to see that UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova’s statement on October 14, 2016 properly acknowledged that Jerusalem and the Har HaBait / the Temple Mount and Western Wall are sacred to Judaism.” Though Bokova went on to say that […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the preliminary resolution passed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) by a vote of 24 to six with 26 abstentions, denying Judaism and the Jewish people’s historic connection to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and casting doubt on the link between Judaism and the Western […]