The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is deeply concerned and critical of President Barack Obama for praising Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas as “somebody who has consistently renounced violence, has consistently sought a diplomatic and peaceful solution that allows for two states, side by side, in peace and security” (‘Remarks by President Obama and […]

In a March 12, 2014 post on the Israel-bashing website Mondoweiss.net, extremist Max Blumenthal condemned Northeastern University’s recent decision to suspend the so-called “Students for Justice in Palestine” (SJP) group, after the SJP put mock eviction notices under students’ doors in several Northeastern residence halls.  The notices contained false and demonizing information about Israel and […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) sent a letter  yesterday to Dr. Joseph E. Aoun, the president of Northeastern University in Boston, MA, strongly praising Northeastern for promptly and appropriately disciplining the anti-Semitic student group that calls itself “Students for Justice in Palestine” (SJP).  At the close of the SJP’s annual anti-Semitic “Israel Apartheid Week,” […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is pleased and proud to announce that Brooklyn College President Karen L. Gould issued a public statement last Friday, apologizing in full to the four Jewish students who were forcibly thrown out of an anti-Israel, anti-Semitic boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) event at Brooklyn College on February 7, 2013.  […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for his recent criticism at the 2014 AIPAC Policy Conference of “friends” who pressure Israel to accept so-called peace deals by warning them that, if they don’t, the movement against Israel will only strengthen. Senator Schumer said that such actions –– which are […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), at its 97th National Convention, held at the Hilton Hotel in Philadelphia, has re-elected National President Morton A. Klein, who garnered a landslide 93% of the vote of ZOA delegates from around the country. This reflected a clear mandate for Mort Klein’s leadership of the ZOA on behalf of Israel and the Jewish […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly criticized President Barack Obama’s remarks in a Bloomberg interview this week  in which he appears to have threatened Israel with isolation and lack of American support if it fails to follow his negotiating dictates, while whitewashing the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s Mahmoud Abbas –– who has consistently honored and glorified […]

Of late, Israelis and Americans Jews have been concerned at the various international pressures exerted on Israel, not least by  the Obama Administration. In particular, Secretary of State John Kerry, in a speech in Munich on February 1, was regarded by many, including the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) which I head, appeared to threaten Israel with […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed concern at reports in the Israeli press that the Obama Administration is increasingly rejecting requests from Israeli citizens for visas to visit the United States. According to U.S. State Department records consulted by these reports, during 2013, 9.7% of Israelis who requested visas –– some 12,000 people […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ), agreeing with his recent forthright statements that Secretary of State John Kerry’s Munich speech amounted to the delivering of a veiled threat to Israel to accommodate American negotiating ideas or else face isolation and boycott; that the Obama Administration has adopted an “adversarial […]