NEW YORK- The State Department has criticized the Palestinian Authority for failing to arrest the terrorists who murdered three Americans in Gaza last year — but once again, the State Department has offered only verbal condemnation and has taken no concrete steps to pressure the PA. Noting that October 15 was the anniversary of the […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) strongly condemns the U.S. Presbyterian Church leaders who this week held friendly meetings with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad and a Hezbollah terrorist leader in Syrian-occupied Lebanon. ZOA National President Morton A. Klein: “This is the height of hypocrisy: these Presbyterian officials hold friendly meetings with a brutal […]

NEW YORK- The Israeli Army expects that if Israel unilaterally withdraws from Gaza, then Gaza may become “a terrorist entity where anarchy prevails,” according to documents obtained by the Israeli daily Ma’ariv. The Ma’ariv report (October 15, 2004) quotes from internal Israeli Army documents outlining the army’s plans and expectations in the event of a […]

NEW YORK- Jewish students at the University of California at Irvine are being subjected to harassment, intimidation and discrimination, according to an official complaint sent by the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)’s Center for Law and Justice to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. Title VI of the federal Civil Rights Act […]

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 […]

Is He Urging Arrest of Sharansky and Arens? NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed its dismay at the statement by Israeli President Moshe Katzav that anyone who calls the Gaza retreat plan “a danger to security” or “a mortal blow at the State of Israel” should be “placed behind bars.” ZOA […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is deeply disappointed by Secretary of State Colin Powell’s pressure on Israel to end its counter-terror actions in Gaza “quickly,” rather than after they have eliminated the terrorists. Israeli forces entered Palestinian Authority-ruled areas of Gaza on September 30 in pursuit of the terrorists who have been […]

NEW YORK – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised the State Department for acknowledging for the first time that the government of Saudi Arabia is violating religious freedom. The State Department’s recently released annual report, International Religious Freedom Report 2004, designates Saudi Arabia as a “Country of Particular Concern” for engaging in “particularly […]

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 […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging the Bush administration to halt U.S. aid to UNRWA — more than $100-million annually — because of that U.N. agency’s aid to Palestinian Arab terrorists against Israel. Palestinian Arab terrorists were this week videotaped loading what appears to be a rocket into a UNRWA (United […]