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 […]

Incitement to hatred and violence against Israel continues undimmed within Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA), In the space of two weeks last month, Mahmoud Abbas said to an Arab audience that “if the Arabs want war against Israel] – we are with them”; awarded the family of dead Palestinian terrorist who attempted to attach an […]

The following is an article by Morton A. Klein – a similar version of which was published by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and in Jewish newspapers across the country. This is a hypothetical speech that ZOA wishes President Obama would make. “More than two years in office has persuaded me that, in our pursuit of […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised Members of Congress Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairwoman, House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Allen West (R-FL) for their criticizing of President Barack Obama’s approval of the flying of the PLO flag over the PLO Mission in Washington, D.C. The PLO Mission raised the PLO flag for the first […]

Cong. Ackerman (D-NY) ends relations with J Street       The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned J Street, the George Soros/Arab-funded anti-Israel group that masquerades as a left-wing, pro-Israel lobby, for supporting the resolution introduced in the United Nations Security Council that condemns as illegal the “ongoing settlement activity” – i.e. Jews […]

Why are U.S., Israel & Jewish orgs. silent?         Fatah Central Committee member and former PA foreign minister Nabil Shaath, is one of a number of senior PA figures who in recent days have frankly endorsed the “right” of Palestinians to use terrorism against Israel. In the PA-controlled mouthpiece, Al Hayat al-Jadida, […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is supporting the call of Israel’s Minister of National Infrastructure, Uzi Landau, for a review of past Israeli agreements signed with Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) as a result of recent PA efforts promoting foreign economic boycotts of Israel. Mr. Landau recently said in an interview that, “Not […]

Did Krugman, ADL’s Foxman, Reform’s Sapperstein put politics ahead of principle & truth in attacking Palin?     ZOA/Dershowitz/Boteach: Palin Was Right to Call Attacks Linking Her to Murders a ‘Blood Libel’   The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), along with Harvard University’s Professor Alan Dershowitz and Rabbi Shmueley Boteach, is supporting former Vice-Presidential candidate, […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly criticized the Obama Administration for promoting the racist, anti-Semitic position that no more Jews should be allowed to move into eastern Jerusalem. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described the demolition of part of Jerusalem’s Shepherd Hotel, the former residence of the wartime Nazi collaborator Palestinian leader, Haj […]

ZOA disagrees with AJ Committee’s opposition         The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) supports the Israeli government’s formation of a Knesset committee to investigate the funding of Israeli groups that condemn the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and assist foreign campaigns seeking to delegitimize and demonize Israel. The parliamentary committee will be charged […]