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 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), […]

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 […]

U.S. Would Never Sit Still For Such Rocket Attacks   The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has written to President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, opposing the Bush Administration for pressuring Israel to desist from defending its territory and the lives of its citizens by launching a long-overdue military offensive, Operation […]

Last week in a speech to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Salaam Fayyad, pointedly avoided answering a direct question from ZOA National President Morton A. Klein as to why the supposedly moderate and peace-loving PA had issued a poster in honor of the […]

Netanyahu: We must allownatural growth of settlements Former Israeli Prime Minister and current Likud Chairman and Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu has warned the Israeli government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert against making any further concessions to Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas. In an address earlier this week to the Conference of Presidents of Major […]

Task Force Faults ADL, Hillel, AJ CommitteeAnd The Jewish Federation ForFailing To Hold UC Irvine Accountable A Task Force of community leaders, formed approximately one year ago to investigate allegations of anti-Semitism at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), issued a 34-page report this month. (To read the report, click here.) The report confirmed the […]