Israel’s self-inflicted woes Aug. 10, 2009DANIEL MANDEL   When foreign pressure mounts on Israel, Israelis, still an embattled people, tend rightly to criticize those applying the pressure. Yet they often neglect their own role in stimulating a climate of foreign pressure. The Oslo process greatly augmented this ruinous pattern. Today, Israel […]

  A new poll reveals that American Jewish Democrats disagree with the Obama Administration’s approach toward Israel and the Palestinians.  On July 22-24, 2009, Global Marketing Research Services conducted a poll of 500 American Jews who identified themselves as Democrats.  Fifty-five percent believe that “President Obama is naïve in thinking that the Palestinians would make […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is calling on the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem to revamp its Web site so that it contains information about Israelis and Israel, which is where the Consulate General is located.  Presently, the Consulate General’s Web site contains information exclusively about the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestinians – even […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has described the recent conference of Fatah, the ruling party in the Palestinian Authority (PA) headed by Fatah co-founder Mahmoud Abbas, as a fraud and mockery of peace. The Fatah conference held in Bethlehem, the sixth in the terrorist organization’s history and its first in twenty years has reaffirmed […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has applauded the Anti Defamation League (ADL) for taking out a full-page advertisement in today’s New York Times to tell President Barack Obama, “Mr. President, The Problem Isn’t Settlements, It’s Arab Rejection of Israel.”   In its advertisement, the ADL said, “The obstacle to peace is not Israel. […]

  Obama/Clinton: Asking Israel to violate Israel Supreme Court ruling         The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly criticized Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Obama Administration, as well as the United Nations, for criticizing Israeli eviction of Arabs living illegally in Jewish-owned homes in Jerusalem. The very liberal Supreme […]

  The Zionist Organization (ZOA) has criticized President Barack Obama for awarding America’s highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom, to two virulent critics of Israel, former Irish President and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson and former South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Both have made statements and presided over organizations […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), noting the Saudi Arabian and Arab League rejection of the Obama Administration’s call for it to make peace gestures towards Israel until Israel fulfills every Arab demand, has observed that this merely confirms the insincerity of Arab regimes’ professed interest in peace and the fraudulence of their 2002 […]

  71% Israelis support Jewish construction freeze only if there’s Pales. constr. freeze        A new poll has found that the overwhelming majority of Israeli Jews (70% to 15%) support autonomy for Palestinians, not the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state, believing that this better serves Israeli interests. (Even among left-wing Kadima voters, […]

  The Jewish Study Center (JSC) is an independent non-profit institute of adult Jewish education in the Washington, D.C. area, and they sponsor programs to educate the community on a wide variety of topics.  In the past few years, Joshua London, the Co-Director of Government Relations of ZOA has taught or been a speaker at […]