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 […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has applauded recent comments by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the Obama Administration will not permit Iran to obtain nuclear weapons. In an interview on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ program, Secretary Clinton said that “What we want to do is to send a message to whoever [in […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the persistently anti-Israel non-governmental organization, Human Rights Watch (HRW), for its efforts to raise funds from donors in Saudi Arabia and doing so by highlighting its long record of anti-Israel activism. According to Arab News, Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director of HRW’s Middle East and North […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed deep concern the Obama Administration for implying that it might accept the acquisition of nuclear weapons by Iran. The indication that it would do so came when U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said this week that the U.S. would provide “a defense umbrella” for its […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised Chairman Alan Solow and Executive Vice-Chairman Malcolm Hoenlein for criticizing and opposing President Barack Hussein Obama’s deeply disturbing demand that no additional Jews be allowed to move into the eastern part of Jerusalem.   Mr. Solow and Mr. Hoenlein stated on behalf of the Conference of […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s criticism of the Obama Administration’s policy against Jews building homes and apartments in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem. Mr. Olmert has argued that the Obama Administration’s preoccupation with Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria is misconceived, encourages Palestinians not to […]

Obama Ignores Hamas Buying Buildings In Eastern Jerusalem         The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has applauded the recent statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejecting the Obama Administration’s demand that Israel not proceed with a project to build 20 residential apartments in eastern Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. Prime Minister Netanyahu […]