The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has repudiated criticism made of Israel by former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in which Mr. Gates claimed that Israel was an ungrateful ally. In an interview with The Atlantic’s leftwing Jeffrey Goldberg, Gates claimed Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu had been “impudent” to publicly explain to President Barack Obama […]

  Omitted Israel in 2008 speech         The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is shocked and appalled that President Obama once again omitted Israel in his list of countries suffering from terrorist attacks. In the talking points issued by the Obama Administration for the forthcoming tenth anniversary of the Al-Qaeda September 11, […]

  The Zionist Organization of America has pointed to several stunning examples of the continuing virulent hate propaganda and incitement to hatred and violence suffusing Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority (PA) during the last two weeks. In this two week period,   ·         Adli Sadeq, the PLO ambassador to India, welcomed the August 18 terrorist attacks […]

  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the statement issued this week by the Middle East Quartet (the U.S., the European Union, Russia and the United Nations) which failed to condemn actual, on-going recent violations by the Palestinian Authority (PA) of its signed obligations under the Oslo agreements to end terrorism and the […]

  Obama Should Cut Off Aid to Abbas’ Fatah, Which Praised This Attack           The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is horrified by the latest terrorist attack on Israel, in which Israeli cars and buses on the highway between Beersheba and Eilat in southern Israel were targeted in a terrorist attacks […]

But Leahy supported increased aid to PA   When ZOA Opposed PA aid in ’94, Leahy said to Klein, ‘You’re Not a Real American’           The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) for promoting a bill that seeks to cut from the U.S. foreign assistance legislation […]

  Pres. Obama Should Rescind Tutu’s Presidential Medal of Freedom           The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned veteran Israel-basher and Jew-hater, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, for his campaign to boycott and delegitimize Israel. In recent months, Tutu:   ·         Persuaded the University of Johannesburg to end its relationship with Israel’s […]

PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — It’s high time to face an unpleasant fact: President Obama and Israel are not on the same page.   This has been true ever since Obama took office in January 2009, but it was most recently apparent this May when the president ambushed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with an adversarial speech […]

 PA Tries to Prosecute IDF, Plans Violence         The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has declared support and understanding for Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s call for Israel to sever ties with the Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA), saying that unless and until the PA fulfills its signed obligations under the Oslo […]

  Media Silence Astonishing, Given Recent Rep. Giffords’ Shooting           The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed alarm and concern at the almost-total silence of the American media following the arrest of an Uzbek-born immigrant who wrote on his blog calling for the murder of “at least, one Jew,” Senator […]