The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly criticized President Barack Obama for spurning heart-rending appeals from Israel, American Jewish leaders, Knesset members and the Pollard family to permit the long-imprisoned Jonathan Pollard to attend his father’s funeral. Earlier, President Obama had ignored appeals from Israel, American Jewish leaders, Knesset members and the Pollard […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has highlighted remarks made recently at fund-raiser dinner with Jewish Democratic supporters by President Barack Obama, in which he stated that new “tactical” disagreements loomed between the United States and Israel in the next 12 to 24 months. Conversely, President Obama has not criticized Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah-controlled Palestinian […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly praised Senators John  Boozman (R-AR) and Jerry Moran (R-KS) for the Senate Republican caucus letter to President Barack Obama, signed by a total of 16 U.S. Republican senators, urging the President to suspend U.S. aid to Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) unless Hamas, which has now joined […]

84%: Israel Committed to Peace     CAMERA/Luntz Poll: Almost 80% of American Jews Believe Palestinians Must Recognize Israel As Jewish State, Pal. Incitement Major Obstacle to Peace   A new poll of American Jewish opinion conducted by Luntz Global the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) has found that more […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has highlighted Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s latest ferocious speech lambasting the West, the U.S. and Israel as evidence for the virulence of his hostility, not only to Israel by the Western world in general and the U.S. in particular. Addressing the 10th heads-of-state summit of the Shanghai Cooperation […]

  No questions on Iran nuclear issue       The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) was surprised that, after weeks of headline news stories about the controversy generated by major speeches by President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about Israel returning to the 1949 armistice lines (with mutually agreed swaps), not […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized Yale University for announcing that it will close on July 31 the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA) and has urged it to rescind this decision. YIISA was founded in 2006 to provide a scholarly approach to the study of contemporary and historical […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized President Barack Obama for pressuring Israel on the basis that Israel must accept the proposition that it cannot retain Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, the Western Wall, or the Jewish neighborhoods in the eastern half of Jerusalem, Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, Rachel’s Tomb, or anything past […]

  82% of Americans Regard Israel as U.S. Friend or Ally         A new poll, conducted by CNN, has found that 67% of Americans express sympathy for Israel rather than Palestinians, whereas only 16% expressed sympathy for Palestinians over Israelis. (This represents a rise of sympathy for Israel among the American public […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed its disappointment with President Barack Obama, for this month once again invoking the Presidential waiver on the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act, which calls for the U.S. Embassy in Israel to be relocated from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. President Obama’s notification of his use of the waiver […]