New York — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is disappointed by yesterday’s decision issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, refusing to uphold the right of American citizens born in Jerusalem to have “Israel” listed as their birthplace on their passports and other official documents. Congress granted this right in […]

MK Rotem: This will end Olmert government New York — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned Israeli Vice-Premier Chaim Ramon for promoting the division of Jerusalem, meaning giving large parts of Jerusalem to Holocaust-denier Mahmoud Abbas’ terrorist-sponsoring Palestinian Authority (PA) regime. In a letter to Jerusalem Municipal Council Member Nir Barkat, Vice Prime […]

New York — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly commended, and supports the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) demand of the France-2 television network that it release the full 27 minutes of footage of the alleged killing of the Palestinian boy, Muhammad al-Durah, on September 30 2000. The deputy commander of the IDF’s Spokesman’s […]

ByMorton A. Klein, National PresidentDr. Daniel Mandel, Director, Center for Middle East PolicyZionist Organization of America The University of Chicago’s John Mearsheimer and Harvard’s Stephen Walt claim in their new book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, that the U.S. has given “unwavering support” to Israel because of the power and influence of the […]

Tens of thousands of illegal Arab homes exist in eastern Jerusalem, Negev, Galilee, Judea & Samaria New York — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is supporting the call made in a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert by Deputy Prime Minister and Strategic Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman to establish a committee to examine […]

France-2 TV defamation trial against Karsenty to be held on Sept. 19 New York — French journalist Philippe Karsenty, the editor of Media-Ratings, www.m-r.fr, an internet service that monitors the French media, is going to court in Paris on September 19 to appeal a judgment for defamation brought against him by France-2 television. The original […]

ZOA writes to Olmert New York — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has written to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert urging him to immediately take action to stop the wanton destruction of priceless Jewish antiquities on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount by the Waqf, the Muslim religious authorities who control the Temple Mount area. The Temple […]

New York — In light of the growing number of warnings to the Olmert government from Israeli security establishment figures, including now former Defense Minister and former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief-of-Staff, Lt.-Gen. Shaul Mofaz, and former Shin-Bet (General Security Service) head, Avi Dichter, not to make further, irreversible concessions to the Palestinian Authority (PA), […]

Karsenty presents evidence showingal-Durah’s alleged killing was staged New York — French activist Philip Karsenty, the editor of Media-Ratings, www.m-r.fr, an internet service that monitors the French media, is going to court in Paris on September 19 to appeal a judgment for defamation brought against him by France-2 television. The original judgment, as Joanna Chandler […]

New York — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has supported the separate calls made by Israeli Opposition leader, Binyamin Netanyahu, and Israel’s Transportation Minister, former Defense Minister and former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief-of-Staff, Lt.-Gen. Shaul Mofaz, to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert not to make irreversible concessions by giving away most of Judea and […]