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ZOA Appalled By Forcible Stripping By Israeli Police Of Arrested, Unarmed, Religious Female Teenagers

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is appalled by reports that seven Jewish girls between the ages of 13 and 15, who were among those arrested three weeks ago for helping establish an outpost at Givat Ha’or near Beth-El in Judea, were taken to Binyamin Prison where, according to one of their mothers, “The girls […]

ZOA Criticizes President Bush’s Interference In Internal Israeli Political Process

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 […]

ZOA Critical Of Bush Statements On Israeli “Occupation,” Arab Refugees & Praising So-Called Arab League Peace Initiative

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 […]

ZOA Criticizes Israeli Police For Detaining Israel’s ZOA Director And Others For Distributing Booklet About Abbas’ Fatah

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 […]

Palestinian “Moderate” Sari Nusseibeh: “No Jew” May Live In A Future Palestinian State, Jaffa Should Be Part Of It

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 […]

New Abbas / Fatah Poster Shows Israel As Palestine, Next To Rifle And Arafat

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 […]

ZOA Condemns Office For Civil Rights’ Decision Not To Protect Jewish Students From Anti-Semitic Harassment

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 […]

PA’s Abbas Condemns Israeli Strikes On Palestinian Terrorists As “Terrible Crime” — But Silent On Anti-Israel Terror Causing Strikes

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 […]

ZOA Criticizes Secretary Rice For Criticizing Israel’s Residential Housing Project In Jerusalem

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 […]

Statehood questioned

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 […]