NEW YORK – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is disappointed that Yeshiva University has chosen as the keynote speaker for a Y.U. dinner this week Richard Haass, a veteran State Department official who during his years in office repeatedly criticized and pressured Israel and justified the Syrian occupation of Lebanon, and more recently blamed […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized former U.S. Mideast envoy Dennis Ross for once again pressing Israel to trade Jewish land for the same old Palestinian Arab promises. Writing in the New York Times (March 24, 2000), Ross praises the idea of an Israeli “evacuation of settlements and withdrawal from territory,” […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly protested the Bush administration’s criticism of Israel’s elimination of Palestinian Arab terrorist leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said that Israel’s action was “deeply troubling.” White House spokesman Scott McClellan then called reporters to tell them that the White House is “on […]

Disappointed ThatU.S. is Urging “Restraint” NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) strongly supports Israel’s elimination of Palestinian Arab terrorist leader Sheikh Yassin, and is deeply disappointed that the Bush administration is urging Israel to “exercise restraint” in its war against Hamas terrorists, instead of supporting Israel’s anti-terrorist efforts. Hamas has murdered hundreds of […]

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 troubled and disappointed that former U.S. Mideast envoy Dennis Ross is largely blaming Israel for the lack of reforms among the Palestinian Arabs. Ross’s stance takes on potentially greater importance because the New York Times reported on March 1, 2004, that U.S. Senator John Kerry regards […]

NEW YORK – The Palestinian Arab massacre of eleven Israelis in Ashdod was preceded by constant incitement to hatred and violence against Jews in the official Palestinian Authority media, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) points out. ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said: “It is no mystery what inspires young Arabs to murder Jews. […]

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 official web site of the Palestinian Authority’s representative in Argentina is displaying a blatantly anti-Semitic cartoon, in which U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is shown performing in front of a hooked-nose Jew with bags of money. (Jewish Telegraphic Agency, March 8, 2004) The cartoon is just the latest example of the constant torrent […]

NEW YORK- All four of the reported candidates for a future position of U.S. envoy to Arab-Israeli negotiations have records of pro-Arab bias, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has warned. The New York Times reported on March 1, 2004, that U.S. Senator John Kerry has mentioned former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger and former […]