The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized President George W. Bush’s intervention last week in Israel’s internal political process by directly approaching the leaders of two major coalition parties in the Olmert government, Yisrael Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Lieberman and Shas chairman Eli Yishai, and urging them to remain within the Olmert government in order […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized statements made by President George W. Bush in his speech in Jerusalem late last week during his tour of the Middle East in which he called for Israel to end the occupation that began in 1967 rather than the conditions of Arab rejection and violence which produced […]

Israel suppresses freedom of speech The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is stunned by and strongly criticizes the detention by Israeli police of the ZOA Director in Israel, Jeff Daube, and two activists, Susie Dym and Yehudit Dassberg (who lost a daughter and son-in-law to Arab terrorists), on the evening of January 9th in front […]

ZOA: Cut ties with Nusseibeh and his Al-Quds University Dr. Sari Nusseibeh, the Dean of Al-Quds University, who is widely touted as a Palestinian “moderate,” recently stated in an interview on Al-Jazeera Television that, “The Israelis now living in the territories of the future Palestinian state should return to living within the borders of the […]

ZOA: Bush Must Demand Retraction And Apology From Abbas Fatah is commemorating its 43rd anniversary by publishing and distributing a poster of a map that depicts all of Israel as Muslim Arab Palestine, with no recognition whatsoever of the Jewish State. The map shows a multi-colored keffiyeh scarf draped over all of Israel. To the […]

Bush Administration silent on Abbas’ failure to condemn terror Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, through his Presidential Spokesperson, Nabil Abu Rdainah, condemned Israeli airstrikes on Monday against Palestinian terrorists launching daily barrages of rockets into Israeli cities from Gaza, killing 11 of them, as a “terrible crime” (Ma’an News Agency, December 18, 2007). The […]

Office For Civil Rights Abandons Jewish Students, Defying U.S. Civil Rights Commission’s Recommendation The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is shocked by and condemns the decision issued by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) concerning allegations of anti-Semitic harassment that the ZOA made on behalf of Jewish students at the University […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for joining in criticism of Israel expressed by the other three members of the Middle East ‘Quartet’ – the European Union, Russia and the United Nations – over plans to proceed with construction of 300 residential housing units in Har Homa, a […]

Ori Nir of Americans for Peace Now contends that “Most American Jewish groups are either silent, or worse, are seeking excuses to avoid supporting this peace effort” (“Jewish groups should rally behind Annapolis,” WJW, Nov. 22). But it is AFPN that needs to explain how it can support the idea of massive territorial concessions to […]

76% unwilling to leave even for double compensation New York — A major new Israeli poll has shown that more than four-fifths of Israelis living in Judea and Samaria beyond the current security fence — 84% — are unwilling to be evacuated from their homes to live on the Israeli side of the security fence, […]