ZOA president Morton A. Klein released the following statement, “The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) praised New Jersey Governor Chris Christie for supporting strong Israeli and US action against Hamas/PA. (Hamas and Abbas ‘Fatah merged recently into the Palestinian Authority [PA].) Christie said that organizations like Hamas ‘need to be dealt with firmly’ “While attending […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is deeply critical of the speech delivered to the Haaretz Israel Conference for Peace by Philip Gordon, the Obama Administration’s Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa, and the Gulf Region, in which Gordon:  Reiterated President Obama’s demand for Israel to withdraw with minor land swaps to the vulnerable […]

T he ZOA condemns in the strongest terms the vicious murder by burning alive of a 16-year old Arab boy, Muhammad Abu Khdeir. The boy was murdered by what appears to have been a violent underworld group of Jewish Israelis following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli youths –– Eyal Yifrah, 19, Gilad Shaar, […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has called for all governments, including the Obama Administration, to hold Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas accountable, now that the Fatah/PA has merged with the terrorist group Hamas, for Hamas rocket attacks launched upon Israel from Gaza. Abbas has neither condemned nor acted to stop the rocket attacks. […]

 The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the vote by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA to divest from three companies –– Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions and Hewlett-Packard –– that do business with Israel as anti-Semitism. As the Harvard University Law Professor Alan Dershowitz has written, “The BDS [Boycott, Sanctions, Divestment] movement is […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the France, Spain and Italy for issuing ‘warnings’ to their businesses not to conduct commerce with Jews living in Judea/Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. In recent days, Spain and Italy published advisories, warning their citizens against doing business with ‘settlements,’ just days after a similar advisory […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) mourns the deaths of the three Jewish Israeli youths –– Eyal Yifrah, 19, Gilad Shaar, 16, and Naftali Fraenkel, 16 –– snuffed out by Palestinian Arab terrorist murderers who abducted them earlier this month near Hebron. The corpses of the three teenagers were discovered earlier today by Israeli police, […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has congratulated U.S. Congresswoman Grace Meng (D-NY) for the successful passage of her Protect Cemeteries Act (H.R. 4028) in the House of Representatives.  If Meng’s bill is next approved by the Senate (S. 2466) and signed by the President, the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 will be amended to include cemetery desecrations anywhere […]

NEW YORK, June 23 — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has welcomed the Palestinian Authority (PA)  surprising statement that it will end its unity government with the Hamas terrorist organization if it emerges that Hamas engineered the recent kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers. The Israeli military and security forces are involved in a massive […]