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Desmond Tutu Keynotes At Israel-Bashing Conference — Again Comparing Israel To Apartheid

ZOA: Will ADL’s Foxman stoplobbying for podiums for Tutu? New York — Former South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who has a long and ugly record of demonizing Israel and Jews, has made new comments in a speech comparing Israel to the evil of the apartheid regime that once ruled South Africa. In a speech delivered […]

Annapolis Will Fail — Palestinians Want Israel’s Destruction, Not Independence

In November, a U.S. sponsored conference involving Israel, the Palestinian Authority (PA) and possibly several Arab states will convene in Annapolis to frame yet another plan supposed to end the Arab-Israeli war and create a Palestinian state. This conference is doomed to fail. The reason: Palestinians’ goal is Israel’s destruction, not statehood. This fact has […]

ZOA Opposes U.S. Proposal To Give $400 Million In Aid To Abbas’ PA

JPost: AIPAC, Peace Now, Israel Policy Forum, Arab-American Institute support U.S. aid to PA New York — A major increase to a total of approximately $400 million in American funding for the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its president, Mahmoud Abbas, has been proposed by the Bush Administration. The Jerusalem Post has reported that this proposal […]

Egypt Continuing To Promote Incitement To Hatred Against Christians & Jews In Quran Commentary

New York — Egypt, the second largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid ($2.1 billion per year, almost identical to Israel at $2.4 billion), is continuing to promote hatred against Christians and Jews, as evidenced by a popular Quran commentary published in Egypt, designed for children and widely in use. The commentary, first published in 1997, […]

Israeli Foreign Ministry Website Omits Link To Rabin’s Last Knesset Speech Repudiating A Palestinian State In Its Rabin Memorial Web-Page

New York — The Israeli Foreign Ministry website has produced a memorial page in memory of assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, but has conspicuously omitted providing a link to the text of his last speech to the Knesset, one month prior to his assassination, in which he repudiated creating a fully sovereign Palestinian state and […]

ZOA Young Leadership Night For Israel

On October 18, 2007, the ZOA-YLD hosted its inaugural event, A Night for Israel, which was held in Forum, the popular lower Manhattan pub. The event attracted approximately three hundred people seeking to meet other pro-Israel young professionals as well as to learn more about the ZOA and its already thriving new division of young […]

Israeli Foreign Ministry Website Omits Link To Rabin’s Last Knesset Speech Repudiating A Palestinian State In Its Rabin Memorial Web-Page

New York — The Israeli Foreign Ministry website has produced a memorial page in memory of assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, but has conspicuously omitted providing a link to the text of his last speech to the Knesset, one month prior to his assassination, in which he repudiated creating a fully sovereign Palestinian state and […]

Abbas’ Own Fatah Security Men Released By PA Despite Plotting To Assassinate PM Olmert

Three Fatah operatives involved in a plot to assassinate Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert during a trip to Jericho to meet with Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas on August 6 and subsequently arrested by the PA after receiving information from Israel’s Shin Bet (Security Agency), have been found to have been released by the […]

ZOA Disappointed In Hillel’s Decision To Drop Anti-Semitism Investigation At UC Irvine

But Hillel Campaign Seeks FundsTo Fight Anti-Semitism New York — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is troubled to learn that the Hillel Foundation of Orange County (Hillel) has called off its investigation into allegations of anti-Semitism at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). The investigation was being conducted by a Hillel-formed Task Force, consisting […]

Majority Of Knesset Members & Israelis Reject Dividing Jerusalem

New York — A majority of Knesset Members (MKs) have signed a petition calling for Jerusalem to remain undivided in response to many statements by Israeli government ministers and media speculation that the Olmert government, at the upcoming Annapolis conference, intends proposing the division of the city by handing over parts of it, including the […]