New York – A new interview broadcast on the official Palestinian Authority (PA) television shows the support of Palestinian mothers for suicide terrorism carried out by their children. The interview features the mother of Wafa Al-Bas, a 21-year-old Palestinian woman who was arrested at the Erez border crossing in June 2005 with a 20-pound bomb […]

New York – The ZOA is expressing concern over the continuing erosion of Israel’s deterrent posture by failing to deal with the barrage of rocket fire launched by Palestinian terrorist groups from Gaza since Israel’s withdrawal last year and agree with former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Moshe Yaalon who stated yesterday […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has sent a letter Yuri V. Ushakov, the Russian Ambassador to the United States, condemning Russia for hosting a delegation from the Palestinian Authority (PA)/Hamas, the Islamist terrorist movement whose Charter calls for Israel’s destruction (Article 15) and the murder of Jews (Article 7). The ZOA […]

WASHINGTON – The Zionist Organization of America expressed its strong support this week for new federal legislation recently introduced in the House of Representatives that calls for tough restrictions on any U.S. assistance to the Palestinian Authority, now controlled by the terrorist organization Hamas. The Hamas charter calls for the destruction of Israel and the […]

The ZOA has criticized the European Union (EU) for deciding this week to authorize $143 million in aid to the Hamas/Palestinian Authority (PA) terrorist regime. Hamas’ Charter calls for Israel’s destruction (Article 15) and the murder of Jews (Article 7). Hamas has killed not only Israelis but Americans and is connected to other Islamist terrorist […]

New York – The ZOA has called for international pressure on Lebanon to take steps to disarm the Islamist terrorist movement, Hezbollah, which it is obliged to do under UN Security Council Resolution (UNSC) 1559, not allow it to receive arms from Syria, as occurred last month. Hezbollah is dedicated to Israel’s destruction and has […]

Peres’s Remark isReminiscent of Durban The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the remark by Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres blaming Israeli policies and actions for the Palestinian Arabs’ anti-Jewish incitement. Peres said at a meeting with the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations at the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem on […]

Hamas, the Islamist terrorist group that won Palestinian legislative elections last month, recently posted on its official website a video which presents the parting video messages of two Hamas suicide bombers, with one of them stating that “we are a nation that drinks blood” and that Hamas promises to drink the blood of Jews “until […]

Lunatic Conspiracy TheoriesPermeate Syrian Media New York – The Syrian government controlled daily Al-Thawra published an article by columnist Abd Al-Rahman Ghunaym suggesting that Israel created the avian flu virus in order to damage “genes carried only by Arabs” (January 31). The article speculates that Israel may have planted the virus in East Asia in […]

New York – Menachem Binyamin Zivotofsky, an American citizen who was born in Jerusalem, won his appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals, after the federal district court in Washington, D.C. dismissed his case against the U.S. State Department in the fall of 2004. Zivotofsky sued the State Department to force it to comply with […]