New York — Contrary to the promise by Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas that funds released by Israel would be used for humanitarian purposes and funding his own Fatah forces, it has been revealed that instead, it has gone to fund Hamas’ own armed forces. The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised Israeli […]

New York — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has described the Saudi so-called peace initiative, first announced in 2002 and reappearing now in Middle East diplomacy, as a plan for Israel’s destruction and urged the Israeli government of Ehud Olmert to reject it. The Saudi initiative demands, in return for Arab recognition and “normalized […]

ZOA: “Don’t Buy Coca-Cola” New York — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) condemns the Coca-Cola Company (“Coca-Cola” or the “Company”) for occupying and using certain property in Egypt, all the while knowing that the property was stolen by the Egyptian government from its Jewish owners, the Bigio family. This participation in anti-Semitic and immoral […]

Ignores Arab terror & Arab Jew-hatred New York — King Abdullah II of Jordan yesterday addressed a joint session of Congress in which he essentially blamed Israel for the absence of peace in the Middle East and failed to mention, let alone condemn, Arab anti-Semitism and terror and incitement against Israel. Prior to leaving for […]

State Dept: These are legitimate concerns New York — Representatives Tom Lantos (D-CA), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Ileana Ros Lehtinen (R-FL), its ranking member; Gary Ackerman (D-NY), chairman of its Middle East subcommittee; and Mike Pence (R-IN), the subcommittee’s ranking member, have written to the Bush Administration urging it to reconsider the […]

Washington — Members of Congress expressed outrage this week after a report by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) and subsequent press coverage in the Washington Times, revealed that in the past several years Al-Quds University and the Hamas-controlled Islamic University, both Palestinian education institutions receiving US financial aid, have participated in the advocacy, support and glorification […]

New York — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) strongly disagrees with the recent comments made by former Middle East advisor and U.S. ambassador to Israel in the Clinton Administration, Martin Indyk, who wrongly depicted Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas as a moderate and peace-maker who has met his obligations for peace with Israel. […]

The Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and former Middle East advisor and U.S. ambassador to Israel in the Clinton Administration, Martin Indyk, has wrongly claimed that Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas has ended incitement to hatred and murder of Israelis in the PA media and progressed […]

New York — More disturbing information on the Mecca agreement between Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah and Hamas on forming a PA unity government has emerged in recent days. The terrorist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — General Command (PFLP-GC) has also joined the government, its spokesman saying it did so, […]

“Synagogue is symbol of occupation and injustice” New York — A Palestinian Arab terrorist group launching attacks upon Israel from Gaza has converted into bases for their attacks two of the large synagogues in evacuated Jewish communities of the Gaza Strip. Israel withdrew all military and civilians living in Gaza in September 2005, leaving behind […]