Aid increase despite Abbas refusing direct talks with Israel         The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) opposes the Obama Administration’s $400 million increase in aid to the unreconstructed, anti-peace Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA) of Mahmoud Abbas, bringing U.S. aid up to $1.3 billion this year, DOUBLE THE AMOUNT President George W. […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is deeply concerned that the new Iran sanctions resolution shepherded through the United Nations Security Council by the Obama Administration are too weak to affect the Iranian regime and thereby deter it from continuing on its path to acquiring nuclear weapons. The ZOA is concerned by the fact […]

  A new poll has shown that 49% of Americans blame the violent pro-Palestinian Hamas supporters on board the Mavi Mamara ship belonging to the Gaza flotilla for last week’s bloodshed, while only 19% of Americans blame Israel for the violence. The poll, conducted by Rasmussen Reports during June 3-4, also found that 49% of […]

  Former NSC official Abrams: White House doesn’t support Israel           The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the Obama Administration for its failure to stand up for Israel, as would have past U.S. administrations, over the anti-Israel offensive within the United Nations in the past week over the Gaza […]

Thomas: “All Jews must leave Israel”         The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has called for Helen Thomas to be fired from the White House press corps and by her employer, Hearst News, following her public and horrific anti-Semitic statements in an interview. Asked on-air to comment on Israel in the wake […]

  Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), the Washington Post, former Deputy National Security Adviser Elliot Abrams, Jerusalem Post Managing Editor, Caroline Glick, New York Post columnist Ralph Peters and former Israeli ambassador and Fellow at former Ambassador to the UN Dore Gold’s Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Zvi Mazel, have all joined ZOA’s call for an […]

NY Post’s Colonel Peters calls for Turkey probe       The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has renewed its call for an investigation of Turkey for permitting a flotilla of armed and violent extremists to sail in an attempt to breach the lawful Israeli blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza.   Such a call, which ZOA […]

Israel: document “flawed and hypocritical”       The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the Obama Administration for supporting the declaration by the 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which singled out only Israel, calling upon it to sign the NPT. NPT Review […]

  World condemns Israel, yet largely silent on N. Korean unprovoked deadly attack on S. Korean ship       The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the media and foreign government attacks, including from China, France, Germany, Italy and Turkey, on Israeli defensive actions against the Gaza terror ship. This ship, part of […]

  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), […]