Category News
Two More U.S. Congress Members Join Colleagues In Urging Education Department To Protect Jewish Students From Harassment

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) praises U.S. Reps. Michael E. McMahon (D-NY) and Gary C. Peters (D-MI) for urging the Department of Education to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitic harassment and intimidation.  In a letter sent yesterday to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Reps. McMahon and Peters joined three dozen other Members of […]

ZOA: Don’t Increase Pain To Families Of 9/11 Victims Of Islamist Terror By Building Mosque Led By Extremist, Anti-U.S., Pro-Hamas Imam

Supports ADL & Simon Wiesenthal Center’s opposition to Ground Zero mosque       The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has called for the Ground Zero Cordoba Mosque under extremist, anti-U.S., pro-Hamas Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, being planned 600 feet from the scene of the 9/11 Islamist terrorist attack which murdered 3,000 Americans, not to […]

Palestinians Refuse To Accept Israel Within Any Borders

  Last week, a small item of news shed piercing light on the reason for the intractability of the Arab war on Israel. The well-known 1970s disco group, Boney M, invited by the Palestine International Festival to give a concert in Palestinian Authority (PA)-controlled Ramallah, was pressured to drop performing one of its signature hit […]

ZOA Praises UC President Yudof For Urging Jewish Leaders To “Hold Our Feet To The Fire” On Campus Anti-Semitism

Yudof:  We’ll Condemn Bigotry As “Horrible”       The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) today praised Mark Yudof, President of the University of California (UC), for comments he made in the August 2010 issue of the Orange County Jewish Life magazine.  President Yudof commended Jewish communal leaders who have been dedicated to fighting anti-Semitism […]

Palestinian Festival Disallows Hit Disco Song Discussing Jewish Homeland

    The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed to the recent demand of the Palestinian International Festival that the well-known disco group Boney M, invited by the Festival to give a concert in Ramallah, not perform one of its signature hit songs, ‘Rivers of Babylon.’ Since its inception in 1994, the Palestinian Authority […]

ZOA to UC President Yudof: Individuals Hostile to Jews or Israel Don’t Belong on UC Advisory Council Against Bigotry

In a letter sent yesterday to Mark Yudof, President of the University of California, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) criticized the composition of a newly-established Advisory Council, which President Yudof convened to address bigotry and intolerance on University of California (UC) campuses.  Not one member of the Advisory Council has any demonstrable expertise in […]

ZOA Opposes Obama Upgrading Diplomatic Status Of Abbas’ P.A. – It Rewards P.A. Incitement & Refusal To Negotiate

  PLO flag will fly in DC, PA officials receive diplomatic immunity       The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has opposed the Obama Administration’s announcement that it is upgrading the diplomatic status of Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) by granting its mission in Washington – which is actually a PLO mission – the […]

ZOA: Why Is Justice Department Ignoring Evidence That Muslim Students Illegally Raised Money For Hamas On Campus?

  Also Ignored Black Panthers’ Violation of Voting Rights Law         The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) today questioned whether the U.S. Department of Justice has let political considerations get in the way of its obligation to enforce anti-terrorism laws fairly and impartially.  Beginning in September 2009 and for months thereafter, the […]

Obama Rightly Condemns Al-Qaeda As Racist To Black Africans, Yet Never Condemned Its Racism/Hatred To Jews

  In a recent interview following the Al-Qaeda-linked bombings in Uganda, President Barack Obama damned Al Qaeda for racism against black Africans, saying, ‘What you’ve seen in some of the statements that have been made by these terrorist organizations is that they do not regard African life as valuable in and of itself.’ Explaining the […]

Poll: Palestinians Oppose Renouncing So-Called ‘Right Of Return’ By An Overwhelming 82% To 14%

  A new poll shows that Palestinians oppose by an overwhelming 82% to 14% the renunciation of the so-called ‘right of return,’ the legally baseless demand that all Palestinian refugees of the 1948-49 war and their millions of descendants return to Israel. This opposition was expressed even if the price of maintaining the ‘right of […]