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 […]

  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 […]