Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein, ZOA Chairman Mark Levenson, Esq., and ZOA Director of Special Projects Elizabeth Berney, Esq. released the following statement: The House Democrats’ toothless, counterproductive, disappointing draft resolution on antisemitism, scheduled to be voted on tomorrow, sends a distressing message to American Jewry that the House Democratic leadership will do […]

Please call your House members to urge them to call on Speaker Pelosi to remove anti-Semitic Rep. Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee Please call your U.S. House Members today (or as soon as you can) at 202 224-3121 and urge him/her to formally request that Speaker Nancy Pelosi remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton Klein and ZOA Director of Special Projects Elizabeth Berney, Esq. released the following statement: The anti-Israel United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sank to a new low when its extremely biased 3-person “Commission on Inquiry” published and widely publicized an absurd report that condemns and blames and defames Israel for […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned Rep. Ilhan Omar (D–MN) for agreeing to be keynote speaker at a fundraiser for the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR).  CAIR is a Saudi-funded, radical Islamic organization whose founder is on record praising suicide bombers and saying he would like the Quran to be the highest […]

WASHINGTON. D.C. — The Zionist Organization of America has appointed long-time top Capitol Hill aide Joel D. Kassiday as Deputy Director of Government Relations.        “We are delighted to have a committed Zionist with Joel’s vast public affairs expertise and wide depth of congressional staff experience join us,” said ZOA President Morton A. Kein. The oldest […]

Amid American Jewish criticism over Otzma Yehudit Party, concern arises about language By Sean Savage and Jackson Richman (February 26, 2019 / JNS) The fallout over the recent merger of Otzma Yehudit with the Jewish Home Party—a bid by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bolster his right-wing coalition ahead of April 9 elections—appears to […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) condemns New York University (NYU) for inviting the anti-Semitic Linda Sarsour, one of the leaders of the national Women’s March, to speak on March 25 at an NYU program on immigration sponsored by NYU’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute (APA). The event, one of NYU’s Skirball Talks, is being co-sponsored by the […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein, ZOA Chairman Mark Levenson, Esq., and ZOA Director of Special Projects Liz Berney, Esq. released the following statement: It’s strange, troubling and hypocritical that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), AIPAC, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the Israel Policy Forum (IPF) condemned the technical merger of two small right-wing […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: “In light of Rep Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) vicious anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, anti-American statements and positions, the Zionist Organization of America respectfully urges refugee resettlement contractor HIAS, Inc. to retract its statements honoring radical Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar, especially including HIAS’s statement that Omar […]

Though Israelis are scarcely surprised by the phenomenon of Palestinian terrorism, they were nonetheless sickened by the recent rape of a 19-year old girl, Ori Ansbacher, by Arafat Irfaiya, a 29-year old Palestinian Arab from Hebron. Upon capture by Israeli forces, Irfaiya made plain the motive underlying his foul deed when he told his interrogators, […]