Liberal Israel Supporter Dershowitz: Omissions on Hamas & Pal. Refugees “Deeply Troubling” The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) provides here the relevant sections dealing with the Middle East on the 2012 Democratic and Republican platforms and comments on the noteworthy differences and platform changes below. Democratic Party Platform 2012: “The Middle East. President Obama and […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed again to another two-week period in which glorification of terrorists and incitement to hatred and violence have been prominent within Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA), which is funded by, among others, the U.S. taxpayer. On July 29, the municipality of Ramallah, the PA’s seat of government, voted […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has called upon President Barack Obama to give an unequivocal commitment to oppose a renewed Palestinian bid for statehood via the United Nations following the U.S. elections, should he win re-election. The ZOA pointed to the fact that a similar bid for statehood within the UN system last year […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has called upon the Democratic National Convention Committee and Obama for America to rescind its invitation to former President Jimmy Carter to address the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Convention is due to be held during September 3-6. The ZOA has pointed to President Carter’s […]

On June 27, several Palestinian Authority (PA) officials accused Israel of having a policy to disseminate drugs among Palestinian youth. The District Governor of Ramallah and El-Bireh, Laila Ghannam, was reported as saying in a meeting with the Italian Consul-General, Giampaolo Cantini, that “the spread of the plague of drugs is a deliberate act by […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has stated that Governor Mitt Romney was correct to note, as he did during a fundraiser dinner in Jerusalem, that Israeli culture plays a large part in Israel’s superior economic performance over the Palestinians.   Governor Romney said “Culture makes all the difference … And as I come […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised Republican presidential candidate Governor Mitt Romney’s speech in Jerusalem over the weekend. Excerpts from Gov. Romney’s speech in Jerusalem: “To step foot into Israel is to step foot into a nation that began with an ancient promise made in this land. The Jewish people persisted through […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed again to another two-week period in which glorification of terrorist murder, incitement to hatred and violence and Muslim supremacism have been prominent within Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA), which is funded by, among others, the U.S. taxpayer. Two suicide bombers, Ali Ja’ara and Muhammad Za’ul, were […]

  Olympic Committee Rejects Minute of Silence for Murdered Israeli Olympians The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised President Barack Obama for his unequivocal support for the commemoration of the murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games at the hands of Palestinian terrorists. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has rejected […]

  U.S. Caves to Turkey’s Demand   The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has been critical of the Obama Administration’s recent excluding of Israel from two counter-terrorism conferences held with a large number of long-standing U.S. allies, first in Istanbul, Turkey, in June and again in Madrid, Spain last week. This fits a pattern of […]