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 […]

Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel groups clashed outside of the White House on Tuesday as President Donald Trump and other leaders signed the “Abraham Accords,” a peace deal between Israel, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates brokered by the United States. Breitbart News was on the scene and captured the incident on film as it unfolded. “Free free Palestine,” shouted the […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Chair Mark Levenson, Esq. released the following statement: ZOA is proud to have quickly organized a counter-demonstration after it became clear that several groups were targeting the signing ceremony and PM Netanyahu at the White House yesterday for demonstrations opposed to the agreements, to Israel’s existence […]

ZOA President Morton A. Klein, ZOA Chair Mark Levenson, Esq., and other ZOA Coalition delegates (including Rabbi Aryeh Spero, Assemblyman Dov Hikind, Nachman Mostofsky, Rabbi Yitzchok Tendler, and Professor Mark Goldfeder) were all honored to attend the signing of the momentous Israel-UAE and Israel-Bahrain peace agreements, at the White House lawn today. The agreements were largely […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Chair Mark Levenson, Esq. released the following statement: The Zionist Organization of America strongly criticized the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Hadassah, Jewish Community Relations Councils (JCRCs), the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, B’nai B’rith’s Colorado branch, the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), United Synagogue of Conservative […]