Yudof:  We’ll Condemn Bigotry As “Horrible”       The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) today praised Mark Yudof, President of the University of California (UC), for comments he made in the August 2010 issue of the Orange County Jewish Life magazine.  President Yudof commended Jewish communal leaders who have been dedicated to fighting anti-Semitism […]

    The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed to the recent demand of the Palestinian International Festival that the well-known disco group Boney M, invited by the Festival to give a concert in Ramallah, not perform one of its signature hit songs, ‘Rivers of Babylon.’ Since its inception in 1994, the Palestinian Authority […]

  PLO flag will fly in DC, PA officials receive diplomatic immunity       The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has opposed the Obama Administration’s announcement that it is upgrading the diplomatic status of Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) by granting its mission in Washington – which is actually a PLO mission – the […]

  Also Ignored Black Panthers’ Violation of Voting Rights Law         The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) today questioned whether the U.S. Department of Justice has let political considerations get in the way of its obligation to enforce anti-terrorism laws fairly and impartially.  Beginning in September 2009 and for months thereafter, the […]

  In a recent interview following the Al-Qaeda-linked bombings in Uganda, President Barack Obama damned Al Qaeda for racism against black Africans, saying, ‘What you’ve seen in some of the statements that have been made by these terrorist organizations is that they do not regard African life as valuable in and of itself.’ Explaining the […]

  A new poll shows that Palestinians oppose by an overwhelming 82% to 14% the renunciation of the so-called ‘right of return,’ the legally baseless demand that all Palestinian refugees of the 1948-49 war and their millions of descendants return to Israel. This opposition was expressed even if the price of maintaining the ‘right of […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) held its first ever National Student Essay contest.  The goal of the contest was to raise awareness of Israel’s historical, legal and religious rights in Judea and Samaria. We believe this was especially important in light of unprecedented international pressure against Jews building and living there, even within the […]

    The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) praises the 36 Members of Congress who sent a letter to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Thursday, July 8, 2010, expressing concern about the problem of campus anti-Semitism and about whether the Department of Education is enforcing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 […]

  Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas and the Fatah movement he co-founded which controls the PA, have honored Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, a Lebanese Shia cleric belonging to the terrorist group Hizballah, whose name was on the U.S. list of wanted terrorists. Abbas dispatched a personal emissary to visit the dying Fadlallah in […]