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New Poll: If Israeli Elections Held Today, Rightwing Parties Win 73 Seats To Only 37 Seats For Leftwing Parties

A new poll has shown that, if Israeli elections were held today, the right-of-center parties would win a substantial majority in the Knesset of 73 seats, with the left-of-center parties garnering only 37 seats and the Arab parties 10 seats. Outside of the Arab parties, this amounts to overwhelming 2 to 1 victory for the […]

ZOA Appeals To Netanyahu Govt. To Start Protecting Israeli Farmers From Palestinian Attacks

  ZOA sends letter to Israel Min. of Internal Security          The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has called upon the Netanyahu government to ensure that Jewish farmers lawfully tilling land in Judea and Samaria receive all necessary military and police protection against Palestinian assaults in precisely the same way that Palestinian […]

Poll: Israelis Oppose Extending Freeze On Jewish Construction In Judea & Samaria

  A new poll has shown that a clear majority of Israelis – 54% – oppose extending the December 2009 unilateral 10-month freeze upon Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria that the Netanyahu Government imposed under strong pressure from the Obama Administration. In contrast, only 39% of Israelis were prepared to support a continuation of […]

ZOA Criticizes Obama Pre-Negotiation Offer To Abbas’ P.A. To Support Israel Return To 1949 Lines

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the reported  pre-negotiation offer of the Obama Administration to Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) that, if it doesn’t break off negotiations with Israel because of the end of the Jewish construction freeze in Judea and Samaria, the U.S. will explicitly support the Palestinian demand that Israel […]

ZOA Praises U.S. Education Department For Signaling Historic Breakthrough To Protect Jewish Students Under Title VI Law

ZOA, Cong. Sherman/Sen. Specter Played Key Role         The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) praised the U.S. Department of Education today for signaling an historic breakthrough:  Colleges and universities receiving any federal funding would now be required to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitic harassment and discrimination under Title VI of the Civil […]

Congress Must Pass Legislation To Protect Jewish Students From Anti-Semitic Harassment

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires that colleges and universities redress racial and ethnic discrimination, or risk losing their federal funding.  Thus, if African American or Hispanic students are harassed on campus, they can complain to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which is mandated to enforce […]

Abbas’ P.A. Calls Major Israeli Cities “Occupied Cities”

  Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) continues to inculcate hostility to Israel’s existence and denial of the legitimacy of a Jewish state through the PA-controlled media. Official PA TV continues to teach children that all of Israel is “occupied Palestine.”’ A repeating message on the children’s show The Best Home, currently broadcast three times a […]

ZOA Praises Sen. Specter And Cong. Sherman For Legislation Protecting Jewish Students From Harassment And Discrimination

  ZOA Played Important Role           The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) hailed the introduction of legislation which will finally require that Jewish students be protected from harassment, intimidation and discrimination under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.  Announced last Friday, September 24, 2010, by friends of the […]

PA Prime Minister Fayyad Freaks Out, Walks Out: Won’t Accept Two States For “Two Peoples”

  More Proof – Palestinians Don’t Want Peace       Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad, wrongly called a “moderate,” angrily left a U.N. meeting and cancelled a scheduled press conference with Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon in New York on Tuesday.  Fayyad became hysterical and ran out of the room when Ayalon refused to […]

PA’s Abbas And Fayaad: Criticizes 4 Israelis Murdered Only For “Bad-Timing” And “Harming The Palestinian Cause”

  The Palestinian Authority (PA) – contrary to Mahmoud Abbas’ condemnation in English while in Washington, D.C., of the murder of four Israelis by Hamas terrorists – has not denounced the killings as a “crime or “massacre” in addressing Palestinians, but has actually affirmed the right and duty of terrorism against Israel, while being critical […]