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 […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President  Morton A. Klein released the following statement: The Obama administration hit a new low yesterday when U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner “strongly condemned” Israel for approving plans to build 98 apartment units in the existing Jewish community of Shiloh in Samaria, Israel and falsely claimed that this constitutes […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: The ZOA expressed concern that President Obama once again insulted both Israel and the United States during Pres. Obama’s speech at former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres’ funeral last Friday.   And, an ensuing “corrected” White House press release added further insult. An […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein issued the following statement: The ZOA sends our sincere condolences to the family of former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres on the passing last night of their beloved father, grandfather and great-grandfather.  Peres made enormous contributions to rebuilding Israel, from a deserted wasteland into the revitalized […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized and taken issue with President Barack Obama’s use of the politicized formulation, ‘Palestinian land,’ when referring to the legally designated Jewish homeland in Judea/Samaria (the West Bank) in his address this week to the United Nations General Assembly. In his address, President Obama referred briefly to the […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the far left J Street and Peace Now for urging Congress to continue to uphold the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the agreement on Iran’s nuclear weapons program reached in Vienna in July 2015, despite the noncompliance by Iran with its very few commitments under the […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the University of California (UC), Berkeley for reinstating an explicitly anti-Israel course dedicating to discussing and seeking ways in which to dismantle Israel, thereby robbing the Jewish people of national self-determination. The ZOA maintains that this would not be done in respect of a course that advocated […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is proud to announce its first ZOA High School Fellowship, being piloted at Scheck Hillel Community School in North Miami Beach, Florida. In addition to ZOA’s tremendous work and involvement on college campuses, the ZOA High School Fellowship aims to prepare students-before they get to college-for what they will […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the Obama Administration for cynically twisting the words of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, when the latter recently accurately pointed out the outrageousness of international toleration of the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s demand that a future Palestinian state be Jew-free, making the issue into one of Jewish residence […]