ZOA Condemns White House for Transparent and Outrageous Tactic           On August 5, 2011, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) filed an amicus (“friend of the court”) brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a petition by Menachem Binyamin Zivotofsky, an American citizen born in Jerusalem who was […]

Incitement to hatred and violence against Israel continues undiminished within Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA), In the space of the past two weeks, PA TV rebroadcast a popular song which refers to Tiberias, Acre, Haifa, and Jaffa – all cities within Israel as being part of “my country Palestine”; and the ‘Palestine in the Eyes […]

            In a case that could affect thousands of Jerusalem-born Americans, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) filed an amicus (“friend of the court”) brief last Friday with the U.S. Supreme Court, urging the Court to uphold the right of American citizens born in Jerusalem to have “Israel” listed as their birthplace on their passports, […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed criticism of Vice-President Joseph Biden’s reported use of the term “terrorists” to describe Congressional Tea Party Republicans, a term rarely used by President Obama and his Administration to describe actual terrorists deliberately murdering innocents, including Jewish civilians and non-combatant American servicemen standing in a line at […]

  Is Jerusalem & Jordan Valley on the Table?         The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed concern at reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, contrary to his prior statements, is willing to open negotiations with the Palestinian Authority (PA) on proposed borders for a Palestinian state that would be […]

Is President Barack Obama committed to Israel’s security? Reassuring bromides to that effect in his recent speeches are nullified by specific statements that spell out dangerous Israeli concessions and disregard for Israeli vital interests. Worse, the administration’s wider Middle East policies further denude those commitments of meaning.Thus, when Obama said Israel must have secure, recognized […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has renewed its call for President Barack Obama to terminate U.S. funding of Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) – which recently signed a unity government agreement with the ‘kill the Jews’ Hamas terrorist organization – following statements from Abbas adviser, Sabri Saidam, defending the long-standing PA practice of […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has renewed its long-standing call for an end to U.S. taxpayer-funded aid to Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) following detailed revelations U.S. funds are reaching the hands of blood-soaked Jew-killing terrorists. A report, utilizing among other sources Palestinian statutes and official PA media reports, presented to the U.S. […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has urged the Israel Coalition on Campus (ICC) of which the ZOA is a member, to cancel a July 28 event in Washington, D.C., that gives a platform to a professional anti-Israel speaker, Ghait Al-Omari.    Omari is the advocacy director of the American Task Force on Palestine […]

  ZOA to OCR:  Protect Jewish Students’ Rights Under Title VI         The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) today filed a complaint against Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights because of a hostile anti-Semitic campus environment.  The complaint, based on troubling […]