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 […]

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 […]