Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) has lauded the slain Hizballah terror master Imad Muginyeh as well as Alaa Abu D’heim, who perpetrated last week’s massacre in Jerusalem’s Mercaz Harav seminary, in which eight people, all but one in their teens, were killed. Mugniyeh was a veteran terrorist who, until his death in a car bomb […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is strongly supportive of Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni’s statement yesterday that “The creation of a Palestinian state is not the required answer to Israel’s security needs.” Livni made this declaration to visiting U.S. envoy, James Jones, in the context of discussions regarding the diplomatic process amid the current […]

The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), a think tank working for an effective U.S. defense capability and for informing the defense and foreign affairs community about the important role Israel plays in bolstering democratic interests in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, has issued a report arguing that Israel should end negotiations with […]

Dershowitz and Sharansky: Israel Has Best Human Rights Record   The Zionist Organization of America was appalled to learn that from March 1-16, 2008, the Hillel at Harvard University will be hosting an anti-Israel program called “Breaking the Silence,” a traveling exhibit of over 100 photographs and videos depicting isolated harsh acts of Israeli soldiers […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) applauds the actions of Representatives Nita Lowey (NY) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL) in placing a hold on the Bush Administration’s disbursement of US taxpayer dollars to the Palestinian Authority (PA). Mahmoud Abbas is neither a moderate nor a peacemaker, and so is undeserving of American support. Abbas has done […]

Min. Dichter: deport Israeli Arabs involved in terror   An eastern Jerusalem-based Palestinian terrorist entered last night Jerusalem’s Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, the heart of national-religious Zionism, and murdered eight people, all but one of them teenagers, studying in its library, while wounding and maiming eleven others. No specific terrorist group has yet claimed responsibility, although […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) applauds House passage last night of H.Res.951, a bi-partisan resolution condemning the ongoing Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli civilians and supporting the sovereign right of the Government of Israel to defend its territory and stop the rocket attacks on its citizens; the ZOA also praises the Republican Study Committee […]

The Bush Administration has told a federal judge presiding over a lawsuit who awarded damages of $174 million Leslie Knox, a 46-year-old mother of six children and widow of Aharon Ellis, a U.S. citizen who was killed in 2002 while singing at a bar mitzvah in Hadera, Israel, that is it is concerned that lawsuits […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) applauds members of the United States Senate’s Committee on the Judiciary for their powerful and incisive letter to Secretary Margaret Spellings of the U.S. Department of Education, demanding answers to the Education Department’s troubling report on campus anti-Semitism.  In the letter, dated February 27, 2008, Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), […]