Schumer: Obama criticizing Israel “counterproductive”       The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) for his recent speech taking the Obama Administration to task for fixating on Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria as constituting an obstacle to peace when the truth is that Jews living and building […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has drawn attention to remarks made earlier this month by Dalia Rabin, daughter of slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as well as to the latter’s last Knesset speech, both indicating that Yitzhak Rabin had serious misgivings about the direction of the Oslo process and that he would […]

  ADL’s Foxman should reconsider his former support for giving Tutu a platform       The Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, Desmond Tutu, has asked the Cape Town Opera to cancel a planned trip to Israel, making the false analogy that, just as it was wrong for artists to visit South Africa under Apartheid, […]

  Harley Lippman, Brandeis honoree        The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is proud to announce that William Kristol, founding editor of the Weekly Standard, regular Fox TV panelist and co-founder of the Emergency Committee for Israel, and Gary Bauer, co-founder of Christians United for Israel and president of American Values, will be […]

New surveys of Palestinian opinion have found that nearly half of Palestinians (49%) favor suicide bombing attacks against Israelis, with an almost equal number opposed (49.2%), with 14% of Palestinians strongly favoring such acts of terrorism, while 6% strongly oppose them, while a clear majority of 59% of Palestinians aged between 18 and 30 favor […]

After a six-year campaign, the U.S. Department of Education announced that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 will now be interpreted and enforced to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitic harassment, intimidation and discrimination.  Title VI requires that federally funded schools ensure that their programs and activities are free from discrimination based on […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the communiqué issued by the Vatican Synod following a conference called by Pope Benedict XVI to discuss the plight of Christians in the Middle East, in which the chosenness of the Jewish people was said to be “nullified by Christ,” the Jewish biblical claim to the […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has called upon the Obama Administration to publicly declare that it will veto any attempt by the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its allies within the United Nations to have the U.N. Security Council pass a resolution to establish a Palestinian state unilaterally and not as an outcome of […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned Hollywood’s Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for intending to award an honorary Oscar to French-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, a virulent anti-Semite of long-standing. Godard, one of the French New Wave film directors, like Francois Truffaut, with whom Godard fell out over anti-Semitic remarks he […]

  A new survey of 800 American Jews has found that an overwhelming majority (76% to 20%) believe that “The goal of the Arabs is not the return of occupied territories but rather the destruction of Israel” while and an even larger, almost wall-to-wall majority of American Jews (95%) support the proposal that the Palestinians […]