ZOA: Bush Must Demand Retraction And Apology From Abbas Fatah is commemorating its 43rd anniversary by publishing and distributing a poster of a map that depicts all of Israel as Muslim Arab Palestine, with no recognition whatsoever of the Jewish State. The map shows a multi-colored keffiyeh scarf draped over all of Israel. To the […]

Office For Civil Rights Abandons Jewish Students, Defying U.S. Civil Rights Commission’s Recommendation The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is shocked by and condemns the decision issued by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) concerning allegations of anti-Semitic harassment that the ZOA made on behalf of Jewish students at the University […]

Bush Administration silent on Abbas’ failure to condemn terror Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, through his Presidential Spokesperson, Nabil Abu Rdainah, condemned Israeli airstrikes on Monday against Palestinian terrorists launching daily barrages of rockets into Israeli cities from Gaza, killing 11 of them, as a “terrible crime” (Ma’an News Agency, December 18, 2007). The […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for joining in criticism of Israel expressed by the other three members of the Middle East ‘Quartet’ – the European Union, Russia and the United Nations – over plans to proceed with construction of 300 residential housing units in Har Homa, a […]

Ori Nir of Americans for Peace Now contends that “Most American Jewish groups are either silent, or worse, are seeking excuses to avoid supporting this peace effort” (“Jewish groups should rally behind Annapolis,” WJW, Nov. 22). But it is AFPN that needs to explain how it can support the idea of massive territorial concessions to […]

76% unwilling to leave even for double compensation New York — A major new Israeli poll has shown that more than four-fifths of Israelis living in Judea and Samaria beyond the current security fence — 84% — are unwilling to be evacuated from their homes to live on the Israeli side of the security fence, […]

Security Minister Dichter: Israelis subjected to Gaza rockets could increase tenfold New York — Last week, for the first time since Hamas’ violent takeover of Gaza in June, Egypt unilaterally opened the Rafah border terminal and allowed 1,700 Palestinians, who claimed to be religious pilgrims on their way to Mecca but among whom were terrorists […]

Holocaust not mentioned New York — Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) media regularly includes approving and adulatory references to Adolf Hitler, most recently in a ‘PA radio ‘Voice of Palestine’ broadcast which included a Ramadan quiz. The full broadcast presents Hitler heroically, detailing his 2 Medals’ of Honor in World War 1, his rise to […]

Israeli Defense Dept.: Rethink strengthening Abbas New York — The Olmert government waited until after the Annapolis meeting to announce the fact that Palestinian policemen belonging to Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) were behind the shooting attack on November 19 — one week before the Annapolis summit — which killed Ido Zoldan, a 29 year-old […]

Rice’s pro-Arab bias not new New York — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly criticized remarks made by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice which compared the Palestinian cause to that of blacks in segregationist America. While stating that she did not want to draw historical parallels or reflect on her own experience growing […]