PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — It’s high time to face an unpleasant fact: President Obama and Israel are not on the same page.   This has been true ever since Obama took office in January 2009, but it was most recently apparent this May when the president ambushed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with an adversarial speech […]

 PA Tries to Prosecute IDF, Plans Violence         The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has declared support and understanding for Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s call for Israel to sever ties with the Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA), saying that unless and until the PA fulfills its signed obligations under the Oslo […]

  Media Silence Astonishing, Given Recent Rep. Giffords’ Shooting           The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed alarm and concern at the almost-total silence of the American media following the arrest of an Uzbek-born immigrant who wrote on his blog calling for the murder of “at least, one Jew,” Senator […]

Never Denounces Continuous Palest. Building There           The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is strongly critical of President Barack Obama’s renewed effort to stop additional Jews living and building homes in Jewish neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem by his denouncing the mere announcement of a new construction project for Jewish homes in […]

  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 […]