NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) opposes the Bush administration’s plan to send a senior U.S. official to the funeral of Yasir Arafat, in view of the fact that Arafat is responsible for the murders of two U.S. diplomats and many other Americans. Since the 1960s, Palestinian Arab terrorists have murdered more than […]

NEW YORK- The U.S. government’s Office for Civil Rights has launched a formal investigation into the harassment and intimidation of Jewish students at the University of California at Irvine, following a complaint submitted by the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)’s Center for Law and Justice. The Office for Civil Rights, a division of the U.S. […]

NEW YORK- Yasir Arafat’s death will not increase the chances for Arab-Israeli peace, because the problem is not just Arafat but rather the Palestinian Arabs’ entire culture of anti-Jewish hatred and violence, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) points out. ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said: “Just because Arafat will be gone, it doesn’t […]

Background: On June 24, 2002, President Bush set forth the conditions that the Palestinian Arabs must fulfill in order to merit U.S. support for the creation of a Palestinian Arab state. Among the major obligations are that the Palestinian Arabs must “dismantle the terrorist infrastructure,” “end incitement,” “elect new leaders not compromised by terror,” and […]

by: Morton A. Klein, National President of the ZOA   At first glance, it would seem that a modest majority in Israel’s Knesset supports unilateral retreat from Gaza and forcible transfer of the 8300 Jewish residents. The recent Knesset vote on the Gaza retreat plan was 67 in favor, out of 120 Knesset Members, representing […]

NEW YORK- American voters in 34 states will be voting tomorrow on no less than 163 referendums and ballot initiatives, on issues from tobacco taxation to bear baiting. Why can’t Israeli voters have one referendum, on the life-and-death issue of whether or not to unilaterally retreat from strategic territory and forcibly transfer 8300 Jews from […]

NEW YORK- Despite a slew of new Israeli concessions to the Palestinian Arabs in recent days, the Palestinian Arabs have responded with another suicide bombing, in which at least three Israelis were murdered and 38 maimed. This demonstrates that unilateral Israeli concessions, such as retreating from Gaza and forcibly transferring 8300 Jews from that area, […]

NEW YORK- The Israeli Knesset’s vote in favor of unilateral Gaza retreat not only rewards and appeases terrorists, but the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza will make it much easier for terrorists to set up bomb factories and bring weapons into Gaza, including even more dangerous and accurate missiles that will threaten major cities […]

Hamas is “Working ‘Round the Clock” NEW YORK- Earlier this year, Shlomo Gazit, former chief of Israeli Military Intelligence, warned that an Israeli retreat from Gaza “will transform it into a big armed camp into which weapons of all kinds will stream via land, sea and maybe even air. It will also become an arsenal […]

NEW YORK- A new public opinion poll has found that the Likud could lose nearly half of its voters if the Sharon government unilaterally retreats from Gaza. The poll, commissioned by the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), was taken on October 18 and 19, 2004 by Israel’s leading pollster, Hanoch Smith of the Smith Research […]