The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised a bi-partisan effort by Members of Congress to punish corporations that are ignoring US law regarding trading with Iran.  Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) and Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY & Chair of House Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee), along with Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL), Rep. Steve Rothman (D-NJ), […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has noted a disturbing pattern in President Obama’s words and actions when it comes to the Jewish people. (The ZOA understands that President Obama has appointed Jews to important posts and held Jewish events at the White House. But many of these have turned out to be Jews […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) praises the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for calling on Chancellor Michael Drake of the University of California, Irvine to publicly condemn the Muslim Student Union’s speaker, Amir Abdel Malik Ali, for his frightening anti-Semitic speech on the campus last week, and also to publicly denounce the Muslim Student Union, […]

Brennan wants U.S. to speak to Hizballah ‘moderates’         The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has drawn attention to remarks by John Brennan, Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security, in a speech in which he referred to his favorite city as “al-Quds, Jerusalem.” Al-Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem and […]

Polls in recent months show that Americans, American Jews and Israelis disapprove of President Barack Obama’s policies towards Israel. They oppose his Administration condemning Jewish construction in eastern Jerusalem; his UN speech supporting linking U.S. support for Israel’s security to Israeli concession to the Palestinians; his comparing Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to the Nazi treatment […]

 Will Obama Admin. hold PA accountable as promised?       Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA) continues to inculcate violence and glorify terrorists who practice it, the latest case being a Fatah-sponsored football tournament named after veteran Fatah terrorist leader Khalil al-Wazir, known by his nom de guerre Abu Jihad. Abu Jihad was for […]

            In a strongly worded letter sent yesterday to Michael Drake, the Chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) criticized him for failing to exercise his “First Amendment right and moral duty as UC Irvine’s leader by clearly and forcefully condemning, by name, the Muslim Student Union and its […]

Would Abbas tell Americans to “return” to Mexico, Africa, South America & Europe?         The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has urged President Barack Obama to hold Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas accountable for a broadcast on PA TV on May 4 and May 7 which called Israelis thieves and advised […]

  Recent polls show that Americans, American Jews and Israelis all disapprove of President Obama’s policies toward Israel. One reason for the disapproval that emerges in these polls is that the Obama administration pressures and criticizes Israel, while giving Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority a free pass.   Such perceptions happen to be well founded. For […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has called on the Obama Administration to condemn and penalize Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA) for its international campaign to prevent Israel joining the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Israel became a member of the OECD this week after the 31 OECD member states voted […]