Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas has issued a statement broadcast by PA radio today, which the PA has promoted as ‘Prisoner’s Day,’ saying that “Our position was and is still unwavering – that it is not possible to make peace with Israel unless all prisoners and all detainees are freed …There will be no […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has called upon Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama to rescind the appointment of former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt and Israel, Daniel Kurtzer, as one of his Middle East advisers to his presidential campaign. The ZOA opposes an appointment for Kurtzer because of his long, documented record of hostility […]

    Wright was Obama’s pastor for 20 years     The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has written to Rev. Wendell Anthony, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Detroit Branch, to rescind an invitation to anti-American, anti-white, anti-Israel pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, to address the NAACP’s 53rd Annual […]

ZOA Criticizes Reform’s Yoffie for Anti-Hagee Remarks       The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly praised Pastor Rev. John Hagee, the Evangelical Christian leader and head of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), following attacks upon him by Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union of Reform Judaism (URJ). Rabbi Yoffie argued that […]

Netanyahu and US House also Calls for Cancellation   New York — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) applauds U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), and his co-sponsors Senators Robert Casey (D-PA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), for demonstrating outstanding leadership in introducing this ZOA-supported resolution (S.Res. 499), which “urges Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas, who […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) pays tribute today, the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of civil rights activist and hero, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, for his fierce criticism of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism and support for Israel. Martin Luther King on Jews and Israel: “When people criticize Zionists they mean Jews, you are talking […]

Rubin Margules, President of the Brooklyn Region of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) recently completed the group’s Eighth Annual Mishloach Manot Project for Israeli soldiers. This year over 2,500 Mishloach Manot were personally distributed to soldiers at Army bases throughout Israel. Each Mishloach Manot was accompanied by a personal letter from a Yeshiva student […]

A new U.S. poll of 800 likely U.S. voters has shown that nearly two-thirds of Americans – 63% – believe that Jerusalem should remain under undivided Israeli control. Only 20% of those polled believed that Jerusalem should be divided. The poll was carried out by the Israel Project on March 18-20 2008 and among its […]

A detailed article by Ido Zelkowitz in the latest edition of the Middle East Quarterly, produced by Daniel Pipes’ Middle East Forum, shows that Fatah, the party co-founded by Yasser Arafat and Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas, is increasingly Islamist in its orientation and character and becoming less and less distinguishable from Hamas, the […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has opposed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for pressuring the Israeli government of Ehud Olmert to ease vital security measures that save Israeli lives. Rice reportedly applied pressure on Israel this week to remove 50 roadblocks in Judea and Samaria, which she called “a very good start” to improving […]