New York – Veteran prize-winning Israeli journalist for the Ha’aretz newspaper, Danny Rubenstein, told a group of Jewish leaders discussing the Palestinian elections that Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria last year boosted Hamas’ standing in Palestinian society and strongly helped Hamas win this election. Rubenstein’s statement was made in response to a […]

The Nazi-like party Hamas — whose official charter openly calls for the murder of Jews (Article 7), seeks the destruction of the Jewish State of Israel (Article 15), and claims to be fighting a world-wide anti-Muslim conspiracy led by Jews — has been voted into power by the Palestinian Arab people. The Hamas Charter even […]

New York – The former Israel Defense Forces (DF) Chief of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Moshe Moshe Yaalon, told the Herzliya Conference on Sunday that since Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria, Gaza has turned into “Hamastan, Hizbullahstan and al-Qaedastan …Israel failed to create reliable deterrence for the future. The Arabs’ refusal to recognize Israel is […]

New York – The ZOA has described as unacceptable the official response of the United Nations to a letter from the US Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, posing questions to the Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, regarding the “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People” held last November in New York under UN auspices and […]

New York – The ZOA has described as sickening the continuous refusal of Palestinian Authority (PA) chief Mahmoud Abbas to condemn Palestinian terrorism against Israel. Following today’s suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, in which 30 people were wounded, Abbas only stated that, “This is sabotage and aimed at sabotaging the elections, not only the elections, […]

New York – The ZOA has condemned the Palestinian Authority (PA) for its on-going support for terrorism and failure to fight it in accordance with its commitments under signed agreements and the 2003 Roadmap peace plan, noting that a senior Palestinian official, PA National Security Advisor Jibril Rajoub, recently praised Palestinian terrorism, boasted that the […]

The ZOA has written a letter to the President of Brandeis University, Professor Jehuda Reinharz, criticizing the Crown Center for Middle East Studies for employing a Palestinian academic, Khalil Shikaki, who distributed funds within the Palestinian Authority (PA) for people associated with the terrorist group, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and has urged donors to reconsider […]

New York – The ZOA has praised the US Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, for courageously following up the issue of Israel-bashing within the United Nations system, sending a sharply-worded letter to the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan threatening to cut funding to the United Nations if it continues to promote anti-Israel events. Ambassador […]

New York – The Head of Shin Bet (Israel’s Security Agency), Yuval Diskin, has revealed that there has been a massive increase in the smuggling of weaponry by Palestinian terrorist groups into Gaza since Israel’s withdrew from Gaza last year and Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz, has disclosed that Palestinian […]

New York – The ZOA has criticized Israel’s decision to permit Palestinian Arab residents in eastern Jerusalem to vote in Palestinian Authority (PA) legislative elections on January 25. Internal Security Minister Gideon Ezra, reversing a previous ban on PA political activity in Jerusalem, signed a government directive yesterday allowing those running in the elections to […]