New York – The ZOA has concerns that the deal brokered by the Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) on reopening the Gaza-Egypt border crossing at Rafah, providing bus convoys for passage of Palestinians between Gaza and Judea and Samaria and opening a PA seaport at Gaza poses a […]

New York – Susan Tuchman, Esq., the Director of the Zionist Organization of America’s (ZOA) Center for Law and Justice, has been invited by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights to testify on the issue of “Campus Anti-Semitism.” The hearing is scheduled for Friday, November 18, 2005, at 9:30 A.M. at the U.S. Commission on […]

New York – Leading, second-generation figures in Fatah, whose president is Mahmoud Abbas, and who today hold high office in the PA, have recently made statements supporting continued terrorism against Israel and the country’s destruction. Statements by these senior Fatah figures demonstrate this extremist anti-Israel, pro-terror outlook: Jibril Rajoub, PA National Security Advisor: “The West […]

New York – A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Saudi Arabia: Friend or Foe in the War on Terror?” inspired in part by the ZOA-initiated Saudi Arabia Accountability Act, which is working its way through the House and Senate, convened this week. Unfortunately, the State Department refused to send a representative to testify. The State […]

ZOA: End negotiationsand funds to PA New York – Former Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Moshe Yaalon, addressed the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and stated that he has changed his mind and no longer believes that Palestinian Authority (PA) chief, Mahmoud Abbas, will make peace: “We thought, and I was one […]

New York – The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the ruling Fatah party, co-founded by Yasser Arafat and Palestinian Authority (PA) chief Mahmoud Abbas, became on Sunday the first Palestinian group to publicly endorse Iran’s call to eliminate Israel. In a leaflet distributed in the Gaza Strip, the group voiced full support for […]

New York – Palestinian thieves and gangs are stealing Jewish land that formerly belonged to the 9,000 Jews who were uprooted earlier this year as part of Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza. Large areas in Khan Yunis and Rafah are also reported to have been fenced off by local families, gangs and individuals. A recent report […]

Rabin: No Palestinian stateNew York – Now that the 10th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is being commemorated, it is appropriate to recall Rabin’s last address to the Knesset, delivered on October 5, 1995 (one month before his murder) explaining his vision for the peace process with the Palestinians which […]

New York – Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets of Kabatiya, south of Jenin, Wednesday night to celebrate last week’s suicide bombing in the Israeli city of Hadera by a member of Islamic Jihad and local resident, Hassan Abu Zeid. Five Israelis were killed and over 30 wounded in this terrorist attack. According to […]

ZOA to US: Endnegotiations with AbbasNew York – The Israeli Defense Minister, Shaul Mofaz, today stated that it is impossible to make peace with Palestinian Authority (PA) chief, Mahmoud Abbas and his administration. In an interview today in Israel’s Yediot Aharonot newspaper, Mofaz states: “We will not reach peace with the current Palestinian leadership — […]