The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the Bush Administration’s decision to turn down a request by Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak to purchase the Boeing 767 aircraft, which can be used for mid-air refueling, amid fears that the sale would appear to support an Israeli strike on Iran. Although Israel has already […]

 Did Obama, in fact, hear Wright’s sermons?     Following Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama’s expressed views on evil in his appearance at Saddleback Civil Forum on August 16, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed concern that his views seem to replicate the anti-American views of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his pastor of […]

    The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has noted the recent report produced by Lt.-Col. Jonathan Halevy, ‘Al-Qaeda Affiliate – Jaish al-Islam – Receives Formal Sanctuary in Hamas-Ruled Gaza,’ as underscoring the need for Israel to launch a military counter-offensive in Gaza to prevent the further consolidation of terror groups threatening Israel. The report, […]

    The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is opposing the Olmert government’s plan to release approximately 200 Palestinian prisoners who do not have “blood on their hands” – a euphemism for prisoners whose attempted acts of terrorism designed to murder innocents failed to prove fatal – 149 of whom have been convicted for attempted murder […]

PM Sharon & IDF Chief Yaalon’s 2002 statements on Saddam’s WMDs confirmed      An American official has just confirmed what has been long suspected – that Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) were dispersed to Syria and Lebanon prior to the deposition of Saddam Hussein’s regime by US-led forces in 2003. This would tend […]

  In the Gaza Strip, during the past few weeks, Palestinian terror groups like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) have been holding camps throughout, some of them proudly displaying rockets and other weaponry which the youth are trained to use. Hamas alone is currently conducting no less than 300 summer camps for tens of […]

 81% of Gaza Jews from Gush Katif – still no permanent homes      The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has deplored the continuing neglect by the Israeli government of the tragic plight of the thousands of Jews forcibly uprooted from Gaza by Israel‘s unilateral withdrawal from the territory in 2005. The ZOA expressed its […]

  A report by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency has revealed that the New Israel Fund (NIF), an organization that purports to be pro-Israel and raises money to disburse to various causes in Israel, has been funding far-left and extreme Israeli Arab groups that work to defame Israel as an ‘apartheid state’ in the international arena […]

  A new poll has shown that nearly three-quarters – 73% – of Jerusalem’s residents (including Israeli Arabs) oppose the division of the city with physical barriers, as opposed to only 27% who would be willing to support it (Israeli Arabs comprise roughly 30% of Jerusalem’s population). The poll of a representative sample of 507 […]

 ZOA urges Obama make same pledge     The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has applauded Senator John McCain’s recent pledge that, if elected president, he will move the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and has urged Senator Barack Obama to make a similar pledge. Senator Obama has said that he would only […]