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 […]

New York – A report from the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center of Tel Aviv’s Center for Special Studies (CSS) which examines new Palestinian fifth and tenth grade Palestinian school textbooks shows that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is educating Palestinian youth for conflict with an Israel it does not accept. The CSS examined 29 new […]

New York – The ZOA has expressed concern that US policy on not dealing with and funding Hamas/Palestinian Authority (PA) is being eroded and has urged the Bush Administration to confirm unambiguously its ongoing commitment to that policy. The ZOA’s call follows a detailed exchange on the issue of Hamas in a State Department daily […]

New York – Uri Dan, a veteran journalist and confidante of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for some fifty years, has written that Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s intention to carry out further unilateral withdrawals if the Kadima Party he heads wins the forthcoming Israeli elections contradicts Sharon’s policy. Olmert has repeatedly stated that he will […]