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 […]

  The following is in commemoration of Jerusalem Day 2011. The propaganda war by the Palestinian Arabs that began as soon as the Oslo agreements were signed has recently expanded to include an all-out assault on the idea that there has ever been any real Jewish connection to Jerusalem. Like the “revisionist” historians who claim […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) supports and praises former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, in his proposal that, in order to forestall an expected push at the U.N. to have a “State of Palestine” unilaterally declared, the U.S. Congress must forewarn the U.N. by enacting legislation stating that any such […]

Following the recent unity government agreement between Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed to the declaration by PA senior official, Nabil Shaath that the PA will continue to hold the Hamas-abducted Israeli serviceman, Corporal Gilad Shalit, until it can ransom him in return for jailed Palestinian […]