The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned as racist the  statement by Ahmed Qurei, former Palestinian Authority (PA) prime minister and currently head of its negotiating team, who has declared that there will be no Jews or Jewish communities allowed in Judea and Samaria, including the eastern half of Jerusalem, thus calling for […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging the Bush Administration to rescind support for a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution tomorrow which seeks to enshrine endorsing the creation of a Palestinian state. The text, co-sponsored by the U.S. and Russia, is seen by officials as “geared to binding a future Israeli government […]

  ZOA to ADL, AJC, Reform – Reconsider eviction support      The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed to two letters signed by 49 and 51 Members of Knesset (MKs) respectively, pleading with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Internal Security Minister, Avi Dichter, and Attorney-General Menachem Mazuz not to evict Jews from […]

  The multiple massacres perpetrated in Mumbai by jihadist terrorists that resulted in the killing of at least 188 people, including at least 31 foreign nationals, and the wounding and maiming of 293 more, were significant not only for their absolute horror and barbarity. There was also something else of terrible significance: although the jihadists […]

  po·grom (pô‘grəm, -gräm‘; pô gräm‘) noun, an organized persecution and massacre, often officially prompted, of a minority group, esp. of Jews (as in czarist Russia)     Israel’s Minister of Public Security Avi Dichter and the Zionist Organization of America strongly criticize Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s use of the term pogrom to describe the […]

    The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is deeply disappointed with Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s decision to unnecessarily and forcibly evict the Jewish residents of Beit Hashalom (Peace House).  Beit Hashalom is a large building in Hebron strategically overlooking Worshippers Way, the access road to the Cave of the Patriarchs.  It was apparently purchased […]

  A new Israeli poll has shown that about two-thirds (63%) of Israelis expressed agreement with the statement that “In reality, most of the Palestinians do not accept the existence of the State of Israel and would destroy it if they could, despite the fact that the PLO leadership is conducting peace negotiations with Israel,” […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is opposing the Israel government decision to release a further 230 jailed Palestinian terrorists, which includes an unprecedented 81 who were convicted of murder. The release was scheduled for tomorrow, but has been delayed until December 15. (Josef Federman, ‘Israel to delay Palestinian prisoner release,‘Associated Press, December 8, […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is appalled by the words of United Nations General Assembly President Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann (Nicaragua) for accusing Israel of apartheid, calling for divestment and sanctions against Israel and claiming that our Palestinian “brothers and sisters are being crucified” by Israel. His remarks were made on November 24, 2008 […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the oldest pro-Israel organization in the United States, has urged President-elect Barack Obama not to appoint hostile Israel critic Daniel Kurtzer as his Middle East envoy which Obama is reportedly considering. As envoy, Kurtzer would report directly to President-elect Obama, rather than to his secretary of state (Akiva […]