The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has written to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking her “to apologize to your former New York constituents (when you were their Senator) for having misled them by falsely claiming to support an undivided Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.”  The letter was signed by Morton A. Klein, President of […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed to continuing, prolific examples of Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas’ ongoing support for the legitimacy of anti-Israel terrorism, rejection of Israel as a Jewish state. This week, it was reported that “Abbas … said that the Palestinian people had a national right to resistance against […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed out the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act, which calls for Jerusalem to remain undivided under Israeli control, is being violated by the insistence of the Obama Administration that Jews cease to build homes in eastern Jerusalem as a prelude to its division. The Jerusalem Embassy Act, passed […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), together with 12 other Jewish organizations, sent a letter on March 16, 2010, to Arne Duncan, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, urging him to ensure that the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) protects Jewish students from anti-Semitic harassment, intimidation and discrimination under Title VI […]

  One of the reasons the Zionist enterprise has succeeded to the extent that it has is the intimate partnership linking Israel with the Diaspora. When communities in Israel are in distress or under attack, when individuals and populations are in need yet feeling neglected or isolated—it is this partnership that, importantly, reminds Israelis they […]

  Recently, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), working with Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-CO), hosted Dr. Martin Sherman for a Capitol Hill briefing reevaluating the Arab-Israel “Peace Process.”  Congressman Lamborn and dozens of congressional staff from various House and Senate offices were in attendance.   Dr. Martin Sherman, currently the Visiting Israeli Shusterman Scholar at […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the Obama Administration for its unprecedented, biased and disgraceful condemnation of Israel for announcing a program of building Jewish homes in eastern Jerusalem, while failing to condemn the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s naming a public square in Ramallah after Dalal Mughrabi, who commanded the terrorists that perpetrated the […]

 ZOA Dinner 2001: Biden says U.S. shouldn’t publicly criticize Israel       The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized Vice-President Joseph Biden for his public condemnation of Israel for its announcing the construction 1,600 homes for Jews living in eastern Jerusalem. Biden’s public criticism violates his own ‘Biden Doctrine’ as stated in his […]

  Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) has ignored Israeli protests to the Obama Administration over plans announced in December to honor terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, who commanded the terrorists that perpetrated the 1978 coastal road bus hijacking, in which 37 Israelis, including 12 children, were slaughtered. At the time of the announcement of the plan by […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed criticism of the Obama Administration for the failure of the U.S. delegation to the United Nation Security Council to alter or oppose the critical statements about Israel following acts of Palestinian violence in Jerusalem last Friday. Israeli police were forced to put an end to Palestinian […]