The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has called upon President Barack Obama to rescind his appointment of retired anti-Israel, anti-Iran sanctions Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska to the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. Hagel, has who will co-chair the Board, has a long and troubling record of hostility to Israel which has been criticized by […]

The Knesset has banned Peace Now chairman Yariv Oppenheimer after he ordered three Peace Now activists to illegally pose as students while entering the Knesset for the purpose of interviewing Members of Knesset (MKs). Oppenheim has admitted he sent the three Peace Now activists to pose as students conducting interviews with right-of-center MKs for the […]

Israeli Member of the Knesset, Danny Danon (Likud) has announced plans to criminalize the political activities of the Peace Now organization and others of its kind. Danon says he is working on legislation that would prohibit all organizations funded by foreign governments from engaging in political activity inside Israel. Peace Now is heavily funded by […]

Only intense, last minute pressure caused Egypt to change its stance        The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), following Egypt’s barring of Israeli cancer researchers from attending a program and workshops in Alexandria (reversed by Egypt at the eleventh hour after protest), has pointed to this being but the latest in a long […]

 ZOA: Oppose Rice asking Israel for more risk-taking     The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Susan Rice, for calling upon UN members to “replace anti-Israeli vitriol with recognition of Israel’s legitimacy and right to exist in peace and security.” At the same time, however, ZOA was critical […]

UC Irvine’s Muslim Student Group Lies, Attacks And Threatens ZOA, ADL, Other ZOA “Affiliates,” Seeking To Silence Us – But Does Not Refute ZOA’s Charges Of Wrongdoing   In response to the troubling concerns that the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) recently raised about the questionable and disturbing conduct of the Muslim Student Union at […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly praised Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for taking long-overdue steps to assist people uprooted from Gaza by the unilateral withdrawal undertaken by the Sharon government in 2005, in particular, the former residents of Gush Katif. Doron Ben Shlomi, head of the Council for Gush Katif Evictees, […]

Further alarming evidence J Street not a pro-Israel organization       The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed to J Street director Jeremy Ben Ami’s past employment with a communications firm that assisted a Qatari foundation to mount an anti-Israel campaign on university campuses as further, alarming evidence that J Street, which bills […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the Turkish government of Recep Tayyip Erdoðan over a Turkish television series, ‘Ayrilik,’ (Separation) broadcast on Turkish state-controlled television, showing Israeli soldiers deliberately murdering Palestinians, including Palestinian children. Set in Gaza, ‘Ayrilik’ includes a scene in which an Israeli soldier shoots a young Palestinian girl to […]

In same letter to Clinton, Specter criticizes pro-terror Abbas/Fatah Conference     The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly praised United States Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA) for writing a letter (October 9, 2009) to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urging her to “predicate” the $800M in annual US aid to the Palestinian Arabs to […]