NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is troubled that United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has failed to condemn the Palestinian Authority’s constant promotion of anti-Semitism, despite his recent speech condemning anti-Semitism around the world. Speaking at a U.N. “Seminar on Anti-Semitism,” in New York City on June 21, Annan condemned anti-Semitism around […]

NEW YORK – More than two hundred and fifty Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) activists from seventeen states took part in the ZOA’s Annual Activist Mission to Washington this week, meeting with Members of Congress and Bush administration officials to call for U.S. action to stop Egyptian and Saudi support for Palestinian Arab terrorism. During […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly protested the latest attempt by U.S. Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer to pressure Israel into making more one-sided concessions to the Palestinian Arabs. Ambassador Kurtzer told Israel Army Radio (as quoted by Ha’aretz, June 22, 2004) that Israel “should dismantle settlement outposts and freeze building in other […]

NEW YORK – While the international community focuses on Jewish construction in Judea-Samaria-Gaza, Palestinian Arab construction in those territories rose nearly 27% this year, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) points out. According to Israeli government estimates, Arabs have been building at ten times the rate of Jews in the territories. The pro-Arafat newspaper Arab […]

NEW YORK- The Palestinian Authority has been providing weapons and ammunition to Palestinian Arab terrorists in Gaza, according to a new report. In response, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging the Bush administration to acknowledge that the PA is a terrorist regime and treat it accordingly. The report, which was released by the […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging the chancellor of the University of California at Irvine to reverse his decision to permit students to wear green sashes glorifying suicide bombings at the university’s commencement ceremony on June 18, 2004. The sash, or “Shahada,” is a symbol worn by Muslim extremists as a […]

NEW YORK- Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Yasir Arafat still seeks destruction, and, like Adolf Hitler, uses negotiations not in order to achieve peace but as a different method of achieving his final goals so says a senior Israeli military official. Major-General (res.) Amos Gilad, who is head of the Political Security Bureau in the Defense […]

NEW YORK- Despite claims by Gaza retreat supporters that the Bush administration would accept Israel’s security fence if the Gaza withdrawal plan was passed, the administration has again publicly criticized the fence. At the daily State Department press briefing on June 15, 2004, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said: “The fence is a problem … […]

NEW YORK – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging the Bush administration to speak out in response to the latest declaration by a Saudi official that “Zionism” is to blame for recent terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia. Earlier this year, the Saudi ruler, Crown Prince Abdullah, declared that recent terrorist attacks in Saudi […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized President Bush’s assertion that U.S. national security will be harmed if he implements the U.S. law requiring the relocation of the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Embassy Relocation Act of 1995 required that the embassy be moved to Jerusalem […]