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 […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has outlined the large number and variety of problems contained in President Barack Obama’s Middle East policy pronouncements in recent days. Here follows a detailed analysis of the failings of his approach articulated in his two recent speeches, one before the State Department on May 19, and the […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for making clear to the U.S. Congress and the world, in his address today before the U.S. Congress, to Hamas’ call for the world-wide murder of every Jew and his reiteration that Israel will not negotiate with a Palestinian Authority (PA)/Hamas […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the oldest pro-Israel organization in the United States, yesterday strongly condemned President Obama’s Mideast speech promoting and supporting the establishment of a Hamas/Fatah/Iran terrorist state on the indefensible 1949 armistice lines (often inaccurately described as the 1967 borders). The ZOA believes that President’s Obama’s call for the establishment of […]

  Endangers Israel and Mideast Stability           The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the oldest pro-Israel organization in the United States, strongly condemned President Obama’s Mideast speech given today promoting and supporting the establishment of a Hamas/Fatah/Iran terrorist state on the Auschwitz 1967 indefensible armistice lines.  This state would almost surely […]

  29 Democratic U.S. Senators Also Call for U.S. aid cut         The ZOA strongly supports and has praised the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (representing 51 national Jewish groups), of which ZOA is a charter member, for calling for an end to U.S. and European aid to the […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed out that, in the op-ed space granted to Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas in the New York Times (May 16), Abbas has produced a collection of shameless falsehoods.   ·         “It is important to note that the last time the question of Palestinian statehood took […]

  Hundreds of Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) activists from across the country took part in the ZOA’s Annual Advocacy Mission to Washington, D.C. on May 12, 2011.  In over 150 meetings with Members of the House and Senate and their staff, ZOA activists urged Congress to take the following steps:  (1) Immediately end all […]

 Over half Democratic Senate caucus signed letter   Numerous others tell ZOA luncheon they oppose funding         The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly praised Senators Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Robert P. Casey (D-PA) for the Senate Democratic caucus-initiated letter to the leader of the Democratic Party, President Barack Obama, signed […]

  In the wake of the Fatah/Hamas unity government agreement, Abdullah Abdullah, a senior Palestinian legislator and member of Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party, which rules the Palestinian Authority (PA), said this week that “No one in Fatah and Hamas movements recognizes Israel.” He added, “Palestinians who are a nation under occupation have and will resist […]