New York – The ZOA has condemned Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) for allowing the Islamist terrorist organization, Hamas, which it is supposed to be disarming, to set up its own television channel within the PA. The channel, called Al-Aqsa, named for the mosque on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, started broadcasting last night via satellite from […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) expresses its great sorrow over the sudden serious stroke and cerebral hemorrhage suffered by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The ZOA community is praying for his full recovery. ZOA President Morton A. Klein said, “The entire ZOA family are shocked and saddened over this sudden deterioration of […]

The ZOA has condemned Palestinian Authority (PA) chief Mahmoud Abbas for the continuing glorification of Palestinian terrorism within the PA, following the PA official radio station’s praise for Palestinians “heroically martyred” in yesterday’s suicide bombing south of Tulkarm, near Shavei Shomron. The suicide bomber, who was driven in a taxi to the area, blew himself […]

The ZOA is urging everyone to stay away from the new Stephen Spielberg film ‘Munich,’ after condemning the film as not only promoting fiction as fact but also having promoted a moral equivalence between Arab terrorist and Israelis who want to vanquish those terrorists. ‘Munich’ is a fictionalization of the events that followed the murder […]

New York – The ZOA has expressed deep concern over the ongoing, weak Israeli response to continuing attacks upon Israel by Palestinian terrorists groups following the wounding yesterday of five Israeli soldiers, including a battalion commander, by a Qassem rocket that struck their army base at Zikim, south of Ashkelon. This was the second Qassem […]

Qassem rocket attacks against Israel continue at the same high daily rate since Israel withdrew in September from Gaza and northern Samaria and are occurring on a daily basis, according to a report from Haaretz’s Nir Hasson. Since September 15, a total of 239 rockets have been fired at Israel, according to the Red Dawn […]

Recently, the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, declared that “Israel must be wiped off the map.” Many international leaders reacted appropriately with shock and horror. Yet tragically, such statements in the Arab/Islamic world are nothing new. From the very day of Israel’s establishment to the present day, calls for Israel’s violent destruction have been emphatic and […]

Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) has criticized the US House of Representatives for threatening the PA with a loss of funding should the Islamist terrorist organization Hamas participate in the Palestinian legislative elections in January. The House resolution passed last Friday called for the PA to require all groups running in the elections to disarm […]

Recently, the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, declared that “Israel must be wiped off the map.” Many international leaders reacted appropriately with shock and horror. Yet tragically, such statements in the Arab/Islamic world are nothing new. From the very day of Israel’s establishment to the present day, calls for Israel’s violent destruction have been emphatic and […]

On December 11, a record 1000 people attended the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National Dinner at which the keynote speaker was one of Israel’s truest friends in the world, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton, who opened his address by saying, “When Mort Klein asked me some months ago if I’d be available […]