The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a U.S.- and European-designated terrorist group and armed wing of Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah, the dominant party controlling the Palestinian Authority (PA), has threatened to kidnap Israeli soldiers in order to extort the release by Israel of convicted and jailed Palestinian terrorists in Israel. The ZOA has long argued that freeing jailed Palestinian […]
December 11, 2013 VIA E-MAIL Jeffrey S. Akman, M.D.Dean, George Washington UniversitySchool of Medicine & Health SciencesRoss Hall2300 Eye Street, NWWashington, DC 20037 Dear Dr. Akman:We understand that the School of Medicine and Health Sciences is evaluating whether the student exchanges it offers with Al-Quds University is being evaluated, in light of recent, deeply troubling […]
December 11, 2013 BY E-MAILMr. Leon BotsteinPresident, Bard CollegeCampus Road, PO Box 5000Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000 Dear President Botstein:We write to urge Bard University to reverse its decision to continue its partnership with Al-Quds University, despite shocking evidence that Al-Quds is a place that not only tolerates, but also glorifies and encourages violence against Jews and […]
Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas has conferred the Star of Honor, the highest honor awarded by the PA, on the slain PLO terrorist chieftain, Khalil Al-Wazir (Abu Jihad). A broadcast on PA-TV stated that “As part of President [Abbas]’ desire to honor the founding leaders and the first generation of the Palestinian revolution and […]
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) today condemned the American Studies Association (ASA), an association of some 5,000 members involved in interdisciplinary study of American culture and history, for voting by a two-thirds majority to boycott fellow Israeli academic institutions. The executive committee of the ASA’s national council has six members, five of whom previously […]
The interim nuclear agreement between the P5+1 (Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States as well as Germany) and Iran is a disaster. President Obama has said that this deal dramatically reduces the likelihood of war. Ironically, it increases it. It certainly dramatically increases the likelihood that Iran will develop nuclear weapons. The Geneva […]
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has issued a new statement on the Iran Geneva interim nuclear agreement between the P5+1 (Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States as well as Germany) and Iran after becoming aware of all its components. ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said, “The Geneva nuclear interim deal with Iran […]
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has questioned the positions taken by AIPAC CEO, Howard Kohr, in opposing any American Jewish criticism of President Obama or anyone in his Administration for the deal signed with Iran in Geneva and stating that the Obama Administration only has a “difference of strategy” with Israel and American Jewry […]
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has questioned the positions taken by AIPAC CEO, Howard Kohr, in opposing any American Jewish criticism of President Obama or anyone in his Administration for the deal signed with Iran in Geneva and stating that the Obama Administration only has a “difference of strategy” with Israel and American Jewry […]
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) praised Syracuse University today for severing its relationship with the anti-Semitic, anti-Israel Al-Quds University in eastern Jerusalem. Syracuse is the second American university – after Brandeis University – to cut ties with Al-Quds, after a November 5th demonstration on the Al-Quds campus, where the demonstrators wore black military gear, […]
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