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ZOA to Sen. Schiff (D-CA): Rescind Hiring of Pro-Hamas, Anti-Israel Extremist Maher Bitar to Your Staff

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein, ZOA Director of Government Relations Dan Pollak and ZOA Deputy Director of Government Relations Adam Turner released the following statement: The Zionist Organization of America expressed strong disapproval and outrage with Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA)’s decision to re-hire former White House staffer Maher Bitar, who […]

ZOA’s Tuchman/Klein JNS Op-Ed: Jewish Students Need and Deserve Stronger Action from Their Government

By Susan B. Tuchman, Esq., Director of ZOA’s Center for Law & Justice, and Morton A. Klein, ZOA National President (January 16, 2025 / JNS) In these last few weeks of the Biden administration, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights resolved antisemitism complaints filed under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act […]

ZOA Congratulates Pres. Trump on his Inauguration and Strongly Praises Pres. Trump’s Day One Pro-Israel, Pro-Jewish Executive Orders

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Director of Research and Special Projects Liz Berney, Esq. released the following statement: ZOA congratulates President Trump on his inauguration, and strongly praises and thanks President Trump for his series of great executive orders (described below) on Day One of his new term […]

After Quick Campaign by ZOA and Others Complaining, Trump Removed Pro-Terrorist Hezbollah Imam from Giving Benediction at Inauguration

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: ZOA is gratified and deeply appreciates that the Trump inauguration committee canceled its plans for pro-terrorist Hezbollah Dearborn, Michigan Shia Imam, Husham al-Husainy to give a benediction at President Trump’s inauguration, following a quick campaign by ZOA; Newsmax, who published ZOA’s op-ed […]

The Imam on Trump’s Inauguration Program | Frontpage Mag

By Daniel Greenfield (January 17, 2025 / Front Page Mag) “The time may be soon to go back home,” Imam Husham Al-Husainy told CBS News. The year was 2003 and Al-Husainy, along with the other Iraqi Shiite ‘refugees’ filling Dearborn’s Muslim community, had gotten their fondest wish when the United States removed Saddam Hussein. Imam […]

ZOA: Imam’s Benediction Would ‘Mar’ Inauguration | Newsmax.com

By Sandy Fitzgerald (Thursday, January 16, 2025 / Newsmax) Zionist Organization of America President Morton Klein urged President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration committee to cancel a planned benediction by Shiite Imam Husham al-Husainy for his “alarming” history in connection with statements made about Hezbollah and Jews. “It would send a terrible message and place a black […]

Praise That Israeli Hostages Are Coming Home, but a Deal That Keeps Hamas in Power Is a Bad One

By Liel Leibovitz (January 15, 2025 / NYP) The cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas is meant to be a first step, and we don’t know what happens next, or the promises that were made behind the scenes. It is possible that President-elect Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have agreed on this move […]

OP-ED Tobin, JNS Editor: Trump and Israelis May Regret the Hostage Deal He Wanted…and Got

Threats against Hamas and its allies, as well as pressure on Netanyahu, clearly played a decisive role. A likely revival of a terrorist state, however, will create new dilemmas for the alliance. By Jonathan S. Tobin (January 15, 2025 / JNS) For most supporters of Israel, Jan. 20 and the beginning of President-elect Donald Trump’s […]