New York – Kenneth L. Marcus, Staff Director and Acting General Counsel of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, noted that “the ongoing investigation” of anti-Semitism at the University of California, Irvine was “prompted” by the “complaint filed by the Zionist Organization of America … on behalf of Jewish students at UCI.” Mr. Marcus’ comments […]

New York – As in previous years, the Palestinian Authority (PA) official television broadcast on May 15 numerous programs and video clips to mourn Israel’s creation, which they call the “Naqba’ (‘Catastrophe’), used recurrent themes of denying Israel’s right to exist and called for undoing of “the catastrophe,” which is a euphemism for Israel’s destruction. […]

New York – On May 9, 2006, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a decision in favor of Raphael Bigio, Bahia Bigio, Ferial Salma Bigio, and B. Bigio & Co. — three members of an Egyptian Jewish family and a company they control. The Zionist Organization of America’s (ZOA) Center for […]

New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in Riverdale, New York for proceeding with plans for a day-long program on the Israel-Palestinian conflict on May 9 that consists largely of providing a platform for vociferously anti-Israeli speakers. Only weeks after the well-known prep school canceled a […]

Published in theLA Jewish Journal If you’re a Jewish college student, you no longer have to tolerate anti-Semitism or Israel-bashing on your campus. You are protected under our federal civil rights laws. These were the landmark conclusions of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, an independent federal agency that analyzes information about discrimination and reports […]

Kushner accuses Israel of“ethnic cleansing” New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), who includes Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis among its former presidents, criticized Brandeis University for planning to give Israel-hater playwright Tony Kushner an honorary doctorate at its commencement on Sunday, May 21, 2006 in the Gosman Sports Center there. Kushner sits […]

New York – An Israeli telephone poll of a representative sample of 500 adult Israelis (including Arab Israelis) carried out by Dahaf for the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot has found that 76% of Israelis disagreed with the proposition “Is the appointment of Amir Peretz as minister of defense a correct move?” Only 21% favored Peretz’s […]

At Lincoln Square SynagogueMay 8 – 8PM New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is proud and honored to host the Lenore Broughton Lecture, being given by Israel’s immediate past Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Lieut. General Moshe Ya’alon. General Ya’alon is presently Distinguished Military Fellow at the Washington […]

Kushner: Israel supporters repulsive;Israel a disgrace. New York – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), who includes Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis among its former presidents, criticized Brandeis University for planning to give anti-Zionist playwright Tony Kushner, an honorary doctorate at its commencement on Sunday, May 21, 2006 in the Gosman Sports Center there. In […]

Kushner, Shikaki,Al Quds, now this New York – Brandeis University, whose mission statement says that it was founded “under the sponsorship of the American Jewish community to embody its highest ethical and cultural values” and was named after one of America’s great Zionists, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, seems to have recently dishonored both its […]