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Israeli Labor Party To Olmert: Hold Off Unilateral Withdrawals For One Year

New York – The Israeli Labor Party, the largest coalition partner of Ehud Olmert’s Kadima-led coalition government, is demanding that the government not move forward for twelve months on its ‘convergence plan,’ whereby Israel would unilaterally retreat from most of Judea and Samaria, with the Hamas/Palestinian Authority (PA) absorbing the territory evacuated by Israel. More […]

Sharansky: US Will Not Support PM Olmert’s Plan For Further Israeli Unilateral Withdrawals In Judea & Samaria

Likud Knesset member and former Prisoner of Zion, Natan Sharansky, has said in a radio interview that President George Bush will try to discourage Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert from pushing his plan for carrying out further Israeli unilateral withdrawals in Judea and Samaria and the forcible removal of 70,000 Jewish men women and children […]

ZOA Complaint Triggered Federal Anti-Semitism Investigation At UC Irvine, Says U.S. Civil Rights Commission

New York – Kenneth L. Marcus, Staff Director and Acting General Counsel of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, noted that “the ongoing investigation” of anti-Semitism at the University of California, Irvine was “prompted” by the “complaint filed by the Zionist Organization of America … on behalf of Jewish students at UCI.” Mr. Marcus’ comments […]

Palestinian Authority TV Again Mourns Israel’s Creation

New York – As in previous years, the Palestinian Authority (PA) official television broadcast on May 15 numerous programs and video clips to mourn Israel’s creation, which they call the “Naqba’ (‘Catastrophe’), used recurrent themes of denying Israel’s right to exist and called for undoing of “the catastrophe,” which is a euphemism for Israel’s destruction. […]

ZOA Filed Amicus Brief On Behalf Of Egyptian Jewish Family In Their Case Against Coca-Cola’s Property Grab Without Compensation – Court Of Appeals Decides In Family’s Favor, Allowing Case To Be Heard In U.S.

New York – On May 9, 2006, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a decision in favor of Raphael Bigio, Bahia Bigio, Ferial Salma Bigio, and B. Bigio & Co. — three members of an Egyptian Jewish family and a company they control. The Zionist Organization of America’s (ZOA) Center for […]

ZOA Criticizes Riverdale Fieldston School For Israel-Hating Program

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in Riverdale, New York for proceeding with plans for a day-long program on the Israel-Palestinian conflict on May 9 that consists largely of providing a platform for vociferously anti-Israeli speakers. Only weeks after the well-known prep school canceled a […]

Op-Ed: Fight Against Campus Bias Gets Boost – by Susan B. Tuchman and Morton A. Klein

Published in theLA Jewish Journal If you’re a Jewish college student, you no longer have to tolerate anti-Semitism or Israel-bashing on your campus. You are protected under our federal civil rights laws. These were the landmark conclusions of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, an independent federal agency that analyzes information about discrimination and reports […]

Playwright Tony Kushner Supports Boycotting And Divesting From Israel – Yet Brandeis U. Is Honoring Him

Kushner accuses Israel of“ethnic cleansing” New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), who includes Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis among its former presidents, criticized Brandeis University for planning to give Israel-hater playwright Tony Kushner an honorary doctorate at its commencement on Sunday, May 21, 2006 in the Gosman Sports Center there. Kushner sits […]

76% Of Israelis Disagree On Appointment Of Labor’s Amir Peretz As Defense Minister

New York – An Israeli telephone poll of a representative sample of 500 adult Israelis (including Arab Israelis) carried out by Dahaf for the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot has found that 76% of Israelis disagreed with the proposition “Is the appointment of Amir Peretz as minister of defense a correct move?” Only 21% favored Peretz’s […]

ZOA Lecture: Former Israel Military Chief General Moshe Ya’alon Will Give Major Address

At Lincoln Square SynagogueMay 8 – 8PM New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is proud and honored to host the Lenore Broughton Lecture, being given by Israel’s immediate past Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Lieut. General Moshe Ya’alon. General Ya’alon is presently Distinguished Military Fellow at the Washington […]