ZOA called for ending freeze earlier this week         The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) strongly supports the call made by Israeli Minister of Information and Diaspora, Yuli Edelstein; Finance Minister, Yuval Steinitz; Vice Premier Moshe Ya’alon; Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom; Education Minister, Gideon Sa’ar; Minister of Culture and Sports, […]

Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, in answer to a question from ZOA’s National President Morton A. Klein, has strongly indicated that the 10-month unilateral freeze on Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria, which was to have terminated on September 24, 2010, never ended. Unbeknownst to most, a de facto freeze was also apparently in force […]

It is a shocking contrast: When Iranians protested an American enemy — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s regime — President Barack Obama said nothing for days and refused to intervene. Now, when Egyptians protested an American ally — Hosni Mubarak’s regime — Obama quickly and forcefully intervened, calling for the man’s resignation, which has now occurred. We are […]

  U.S. should consider ending $2 billion in Egypt aid       The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has urged the Israeli government to make it clear that, in the event that Egypt cancels the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty, as several prominent Egyptian figures have proclaimed in recent days, Israel will also cancel the […]

            The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the 100 faculty members at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) for signing a letter to Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, urging him to drop the criminal charges against the 11 students who violated two California statutes by planning and then repeatedly disrupting a speech […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized as ridiculous and false the statement made yesterday by the President Barack Obama’s Director of the National Intelligence Board, James Clapper, that the extremist, Islamist Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is a “largely secular” movement. During a House Intelligence Committee hearing yesterday, Mr. Clapper said, “The term ‘Muslim […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed out the astonishing contrast and shocking inconsistency between President Barack Obama’s reaction of not intervening during the Iranian public protests and crushing of the protestors by an American enemy, Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; and his reaction to Egyptian public protests again a U.S. ally, the regime of Hosni […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) praises the Office of the District Attorney in Orange County, CA for criminally charging the 11 students who deliberately and repeatedly disrupted a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) on February 8, 2010.  The 11 students – eight from UCI, and […]

  In a letter today to Brooklyn College President Karen L. Gould, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) criticized the college for rehiring Kristofer Petersen-Overton to teach a graduate course on the Middle East this spring.  After Mr. Petersen-Overton was initially hired, the college was provided with evidence regarding his publications and professional background, showing […]