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ZOA: Sharon’s Drop To 8th Place As Choice By Likud For PM Is Due To Evacuation Plan

NEW YORK – In a survey released this week by Israel’s Midgam polling company in conjunction with Radius radio, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has dropped to 8th place as choice for PM among Likud Central Committee members. The poll was based on 401 members of the Likud Central Committee. Only one month ago ago, polls […]

Abbas: I Will Release Killer Of Israeli Minister And Leader Of Karine-A Weapons Ship Affair

New York – Mahmoud Abbas, Holocaust Denier and chief of the Palestinian Authority (PA), announced today that he plans to release Ahmed Saadat and Fuad Shubaki. (Israel National News, March 15, 2005) Saadat is secretary-general of the PFLP and is responsible for the murder of Rehavam Ze’evi, an Israeli Minister and IDF General. Shubaki led […]

ZOA Launches Ad Campaign To Stop U.S. Money And Concessions To Abbas Until He Retracts Holocaust Denial And Fulfills Road Map

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has launched a major nationwide ad campaign calling to stop $350M in U.S. aid and other concessions to Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), until he publicly retracts and apologizes for his holocaust denial and until he fulfills all of his obligations under the […]

Abbas To Time Magazine: Israel Caused Tel Aviv Bombing, Israel Proper Is His Country, And Welcomes Hamas

New York – Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), said yesterday that “the Israelis are responsible” for the recent Tel Aviv suicide bombing that murdered 5 Israelis and injured dozens more. He asserted this in his first English-language interview since taking office in January. It was published in the March 7, 2005 edition […]

Op-Ed: Holocaust Denier Gets a Free Pass

Published in the Jewish Journal of Los AngelesMarch 4, 2005 Despite the smiling images from Sharm el-Sheikh, the fact is that Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, has taken no demonstrable steps to dismantle and disarm the vast Palestinian terror networks, end the incitement or arrest terrorists. And although his rhetoric even after […]

ZOA Helped Initiate And Facilitate Columbia University Conference On Middle East And Academic Integrity

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) helped initiate and facilitate, along with the Columbia University chapter of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) a landmark academic conference entitled, “The Middle East and Academic Integrity on the American Campus.” This major event is being held on Sunday, March 6, 2005, 10AM […]

Former Israel PM Ehud Barak Criticizes Sharon’s Gaza Evacuation Plan And Predicts 75,000 Jews Behind Fence Will Be Evacuated

New York – Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak told the Knesset Channel that the Sharon family was “corrupt to the core,” and that “in any other normal country, Sharon would have no longer been in power.” Former PM Barak then added that the impression that Sharon has caved in to terrorism, “shared by Uzi […]

ZOA Hosts Internationally Renowned Euro-Arab Expert Bat Ye’or On Capitol Hill

Washington – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) sponsored a Capitol Hill lecture and Q&A with Bat Ye’or, an internationally renowned expert on Euro-Islamic culture and society, in the banquet room of the Rayburn House Office Building on February 28. The event was held in cooperation with the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in […]

ZOA Supports Israeli Foreign Minister Shalom And Knesset Speaker Rivlin’s Call For Referendum On Gaza Expulsion

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) applauds Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and Knesset Speaker Ruby Rivlin’s call last night to hold a referendum on the issue of whether to expel 9000 Jews from the Jewish section of Gaza and giving their land and homes to the Palestinian leader and Holocaust denier […]

ZOA Troubled By Bush Administration’s Pressuring Israel On Gaza Withdrawal

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has taken issue with the Bush administration’s Secretary of State Rice’s pressure on Israel to throw the 9,000 Jews out of Gaza, transfer them, and give the land over to the Palestinian Authority (PA). In a press conference Secretary of State Rice gave at Ben-Gurion airport, […]