New York – Former Israeli Defense Minister, Moshe Arens, has said that only Israeli reconquest of the areas evacuated in Gaza by Israel last year could put a halt to the hundreds of Palestinian rocket attacks that have been incessant from Gaza since that time. Mr. Arens, who served several times as Defense Minister and […]

New York – A report from Geostrategy.com, an intelligence analysis website published by World Tribune.com, says that Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza last year has weakened Israel as a US ally by creating the image of a country that retreats in the face of terrorism and fails to take strong military action against it. The […]

ZOA’s Testimony And Legal ComplaintHelp Spur Historic Move The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) applauds the historic findings and recommendations issued on Monday, April 3, 2006, by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, to address anti-Semitic harassment, intimidation and discrimination on U.S. college campuses. The findings and recommendations were based in part on the ZOA’s […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the formal relationship that Brandeis University has developed with Al-Quds University, a Palestinian educational institution in eastern Jerusalem, whose website denies the Jewish historical connection with Jerusalem and promotes other falsehoods. Brandeis is being funded as part of a $500,000 Ford Foundation Grant meant […]

New York – Four Israelis were killed overnight near the town of Kedumim by a suicide bomber, Mahmoud Masharka, who had been arrested by the Palestinian Authority (PA) but released a few weeks ago. Masharka disguised himself as an orthodox Jew and hitched a ride on the road outside Kedumim from an Israeli car containing […]

Left-right Split 52-51Kadima Gets Only 23% of Vote New York – In yesterday’s Israeli elections, the electorate sent a divided message on future unilateral withdrawals and the forced expulsion of Jews from Judea & Samaria, while economic and domestic issues were probably more dominant than in any election in 30 years. There was virtually an […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has repudiated as intellectually dishonest and anti-Semitic a pseudo-academic ‘Working Paper’ written by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, ‘The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy’, published as part of the Faculty Research Working Paper Series of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly applauded President Bush for stating forthrightly that the United States takes seriously Iran’s threats to Israel and will “use military might to protect our ally Israel” if Iran attempts to act. President Bush, delivering a detailed speech in Cleveland yesterday on developments in Iraq […]

New York – The ZOA has described as ludicrous the call by Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas for Hamas to accept existing agreements entered into with Israel by the PA, saying that this falsely implies that the PA under Abbas and Fatah previously complied with PA undertakings under these agreements. The agreements signed by […]

New York – The ZOA has condemned recent moves within the European Union (EU) to legitimize the Palestinian Islamist terrorist movement, Hamas, which won Palestinian legislative elections last January. In what appears to be a crack in the formal EU position of not dealing with Hamas until it recognizes Israel and ceases terrorism, the EU’s […]