The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), a group that has frequently and unfairly criticized Israel’s observance of human rights while frequently ignoring the genuine human rights abuses committed by other regimes in the region, which reveals that Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Hamas-controlled […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein and Chair Mark Levenson, Esq. released the following statement: ZOA mourns and is horrified and devastated by the murder of eleven innocent Jews, and the injuring of other Jews and several courageous policemen, at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.  This massacre was committed by a […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: It’s time for CNN and Temple University to fire Marc Lamont Hill, where Hill is a contributor and professor respectively. Hill has continued to promote Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan even after Farrakhan equated Jews to “termites” on Facebook last week, and despite […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) and the University of Pennsylvania’s Middle East Center plan to meet in late 2018 in the wake of the latter hosting an event co-sponsored by Breaking the Silence, an organization of Israeli military veterans dedicated to opposing the Jewish state’s military and civilian presence in Judea and Samaria. Morton […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein and Director of Special Projects Liz Berney, Esq. released the following statement: ZOA opposes the  Israeli Supreme Court’s decision overturning the Israeli government’s order to deport Lara Alqasem, the terrorist-supporting recent chapter president of the violent BDS and hate group, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). The […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: The ZOA strongly praises the Trump administration and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for today announcing that the U.S. Consulate General (which really dealt with Palestinian Arabs) in the eastern portion of Jerusalem will be merged into a single diplomatic mission, in […]

Russian Jews have suffered great persecution over the centuries. Many of them have chosen to come to America to seek refuge and freedom from oppression. It is disturbing that the New Yorker, in a recent article by Sheelah Kolhatkar titled “The Growth of Sinclair’s Conservative Media Empire,” chose to focus on the nationality of such […]

ZOA NY Metro hosted its second successful program, Eastern, Central and Western Europe, 2018:  70+ Years Post-Holocaust – is it safer to be a Jew and/or Zionist in Warsaw or in Paris?   on October 9th at ZOA headquarters in NYC. Matthew Tyrmand, author, journalist and advisor to the Polish government spoke to the quality of […]

We are issuing the following press release, drafted two years ago, regarding detailed polling of prevailing Palestinian Arab attitudes towards Israel, Jews, terrorism, peace and so on, as an illustration of the regrettable and tragic reality that little to nothing has changed in the intervening two years.  All these attitudes are all-too-faithfully represented by the […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) commended the University of Michigan (U-M) today for disciplining Professor John Cheney-Lippold for refusing to write a recommendation letter for a deserving student because she wanted to study in Israel.  The Detroit News reported last evening that it obtained a letter signed by Elizabeth Cole, the interim dean of […]