Denies points made in Sen. Specter’s letter     The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has written to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, criticizing her response to a strong and principled letter she received from Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA), in which she both whitewashes and ignores the Abbas/Fatah Conference’s rejection of a final peace settlement […]

 Denial in Bigio Case Borders on Anti-Semitism       The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the Coca-Cola Company (“Coca-Cola” or the “Company”) for denying that Jews in Egypt were subjected to anti-Semitic persecution and discrimination under the government of Gamal Abdel Nasser, which included the confiscation of Jewish property and the expulsion […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the U.N. body charged with protecting Palestinian refugees of the 1948-49 and their descendants, for sponsoring a propaganda production in the form of a one-man play describing Israel’s shelling of an UNWRA warehouse in Gaza during Israel’s military operations […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed to continuing evidence within Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA) of indoctrinating Palestinian children to view all of Israel, even within the pre-June 1967 armistice lines, as “occupied Palestine.” As the latest, routine example of this, last month, PA TV included the following exchange between the program’s […]

 J Street crowd boos Goldstone critic, cheers refusal to criticize Farrakhan         The extremist left-wing lobby group, J Street, which has repeatedly described itself as a “pro-Israel, pro-peace” organization” has decided that its younger, university activists should drop the “pro-Israel” part of their slogan. The decision was made at J Street’s inaugural […]

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 […]