After the recent toll of mostly peaceful Black Lives Matter rioting wrecked cities and tilted the polls toward Trump, Joe Biden and even Kamala Harris began condemning “violence.” Biden has said meaningless things like “we condemn the violence,” and “I condemn this violence unequivocally,” as if violence were an independent entity. Condemning violence, like condemning […]

Spearheaded by the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), a coalition of 30 national organizations sent a detailed letter to the leaders of 165 colleges and universities across the U.S., expressing deep concern about campus antisemitism, and urging them to take specific steps to protect Jewish students from antisemitic harassment and intimidation. (The ZOA departments that provided significant help […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the country’s oldest pro-Israel organization, has demanded that the Anti-Defamation League speak out against Joe Biden for comparing President Donald Trump to a Nazi leader. Biden compared Trump to Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels on Saturday during an interview on MSNBC. It was the second time he has done so. (Biden […]

Note: The ZOA does not endorse, oppose, or recommend any political candidates. Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: As a Child of Holocaust Survivors born in a displaced persons camp in Germany, I am appalled and deeply offended by former VP Joe Biden again misusing a Nazi analogy on […]

Note: ZOA does not endorse any candidates. Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Chair Mark Levenson, Esq. released the following statement: Donny Deutsch’s tirade on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on September 23, 2020, was so ridiculous, outrageous, and insulting, especially to American Jews, that Deutsch should never be invited by the media again. Deutsch […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) commends Zoom – the video-conferencing platform – for denying a platform to the San Francisco State University (SFSU) program featuring convicted terrorist Leila Khaled. When the program’s organizers tried to use Facebook and then YouTube, both companies rightly rejected the program.  The ZOA and others had urged SFSU to cancel […]

ZOA President Morton A. Klein, Chair Mark Levenson, Esq., and Director of Special Projects Liz Berney, Esq. released the following statement:  On September 14, 2020, the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) published a feature article entitled “With HIAS Changing Longtime Focus, Supporters Question Some of its Priorities,” by reporters Deborah Fineblum and Sean Savage. The article’s subtitle asked, […]

In the 1960s, I went to Mississippi to register Black voters. It was only natural for me; I had been a regular participant in sit-ins for Black housing rights and protest marches for civil rights. Having grown up in an all-Black neighborhood, I, like many other Jews at the time, thought it was horrifying that […]

The antisemitism that Rose Ritch endured at the University of Southern California (USC) has been all over the media. Ritch recently resigned as vice president of USC’s undergraduate student government after she was harassed for months by fellow students for one reason only: Ritch is proudly Jewish and openly expresses her Jewish identity by supporting the Jewish […]

(September 14, 2020 / JNS)  The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, better known as HIAS, was for the better part of a century responsible for helping settle generations of Jewish refugees in their new homes in the United States. From 1881 through the release of Jews from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, the organization worked not […]