The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized as ridiculous and false the statement made yesterday by the President Barack Obama’s Director of the National Intelligence Board, James Clapper, that the extremist, Islamist Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is a “largely secular” movement. During a House Intelligence Committee hearing yesterday, Mr. Clapper said, “The term ‘Muslim […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed out the astonishing contrast and shocking inconsistency between President Barack Obama’s reaction of not intervening during the Iranian public protests and crushing of the protestors by an American enemy, Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; and his reaction to Egyptian public protests again a U.S. ally, the regime of Hosni […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) praises the Office of the District Attorney in Orange County, CA for criminally charging the 11 students who deliberately and repeatedly disrupted a speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) on February 8, 2010.  The 11 students – eight from UCI, and […]

  In a letter today to Brooklyn College President Karen L. Gould, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) criticized the college for rehiring Kristofer Petersen-Overton to teach a graduate course on the Middle East this spring.  After Mr. Petersen-Overton was initially hired, the college was provided with evidence regarding his publications and professional background, showing […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the Obama Administration’s implied acceptance for a new regime in Egypt which could include the Muslim Brotherhood (MB). Despite the dictatorial nature of the Mubarak regime and despite the ZOA’s long-standing view that U.S. aid to it should be conditioned on its reforming its policies, the ZOA […]

Incitement to hatred and violence against Israel continues undimmed within Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA), In the space of two weeks last month, Mahmoud Abbas said to an Arab audience that “if the Arabs want war against Israel] – we are with them”; awarded the family of dead Palestinian terrorist who attempted to attach an […]

The following is an article by Morton A. Klein – a similar version of which was published by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and in Jewish newspapers across the country. This is a hypothetical speech that ZOA wishes President Obama would make. “More than two years in office has persuaded me that, in our pursuit of […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised Members of Congress Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairwoman, House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Allen West (R-FL) for their criticizing of President Barack Obama’s approval of the flying of the PLO flag over the PLO Mission in Washington, D.C. The PLO Mission raised the PLO flag for the first […]

Cong. Ackerman (D-NY) ends relations with J Street       The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned J Street, the George Soros/Arab-funded anti-Israel group that masquerades as a left-wing, pro-Israel lobby, for supporting the resolution introduced in the United Nations Security Council that condemns as illegal the “ongoing settlement activity” – i.e. Jews […]