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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

New York — Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas stated today that “We remain committed to the two-state solution, the recognition of Israel, renouncing violence and terror” and to adhere to existing agreements between Israel and the Palestinians ( Jerusalem Post, February 23). In fact, Abbas himself has stated that none of the Palestinian terrorist […]

But Disappointed that Hillel Failed to Throw its Support Behind Ongoing Federal Investigation The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) commends the Hillel Foundation of Orange County (Hillel) for finally publicly acknowledging that Jewish students at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) are facing anti-Semitism on campus that must be addressed. In October 2004, the ZOA […]

Daniel Pipes: Shikaki credibly linked to terrorism New York – Brandeis University’s Crown Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CCMES) Fellow Khalil Shikaki has called in a Crown Center publication for the release of convicted Palestinian Arab murderer of Jews, Marwan Barghouti. Barghouti, a leader of the ‘young guard’ of Mahmoud Abbas’ terrorist movement, Fatah, (whose […]