Category Op-Ed
OP-ED Why Moshe Glick Faces Prison After Defending a New Jersey Synagogue by Irit Tratt (ZOA Brandeis Defender of Israel Award Winner With Husband Jonathan) | Fox News

Standing up to antisemitic mobs shouldn’t land you in prison By Irit Tratt (January 7, 2026/FoxNews.com) “Rape their daughters!” “We are Nazis and proud!” “F— the Jews!“ These are antisemitic chants made by anti-Israel protesters in Australia, England and France, where there have recently been deadly attacks against Jews. But that’s not America, right? “The Jew is here.”  Those […]

OP-ED A Warning from History: Antisemitic Mayor Mamdani and the Dismantling of Jewish Protections — Bryan Rigg, PhD (Yale, Cambridge University), American Military and Holocaust Historian

January 5, 2026 Dear Friends, I am writing out of serious concern regarding actions taken by Mayor Zohran Mamdani on his first day in office and what they signal for New York City’s Jewish community in particular and the world in general. As a Holocaust historian, I have spent decades studying how antisemitism takes hold—not […]

OP-ED JNS Op-Ed by ZOA’s Morton Klein: Tucker Carlson Is Not Only a Jew-Hating Enemy of Israel — He’s an Enemy of America

By Morton A. Klein (January 3, 2026 / JNS) Tucker Carlson is not a patriot. In fact, he’s an enemy of America. Why? Because American patriots don’t side with sworn enemies, such as the Iranian regime that daily plots and calls for death to the United States, and has murdered thousands of Americans. American patriots […]

OP-ED JNS Op-Ed: Calls for global intifada must end, ZOA’s President Morton Klein

By Morton A. Klein (Dec. 22, 2025 / JNS) Jews worldwide and their supporters on the last day of the Chanukah holiday are still reeling with pain and horror from the terrorist attack on Bondi Beach during the first night of Chanukah. In Australia on Dec. 14, two Muslim father-and-son terrorists shouting Allahu Akbar! shot dead 15 people, […]

OP-ED JNS Op-Ed: ZOA’s Mort Klein’s Troubling Personal Experience with Rabbi Cosgrove’s One-Way “Diverse Viewpoints” Policy

By Morton A. Klein (December 16, 2025 / JNS) During a speech at the American Zionist Movement’s biennial this month, Elliot Cosgrove, a prominent Conservative rabbi in New York City, called for “a new chapter of American Zionism” that welcomed diverse viewpoints. At the same time, he condemned “intolerance in the American Jewish community toward differing political […]

OP-ED Heritage Fdn. Must End Ties With Jew-Hater Tucker Carlson or Fire Its Pres. Roberts, or ZOA Will End Ties With Heritage — ZOA’s Morton Klein JNS Op-Ed

As the child of Holocaust survivors who lost most of my family in the Shoah, I was taught by my parents that the foundations for the Holocaust began with extraordinary and frightening propaganda lies against the Jews. These lies spread against Jews and Israel by Carlson and his guests on his podcast are reminiscent of […]

OP-ED ZOA’s Karen Amouyal, Campus Social Media Mgr.’s JPost Op-Ed — Charlie Kirk: When Debate Dies by Bullet

By Karen Amouyal This wasn’t just a crime. It was a message: If you stand against the radical Left, if you refuse to parrot its ideology, your life may no longer be safe. Charlie Kirk with Morton Klein, touring Jerusalem together   (September 14, 2025 / JPost) Charlie Kirk was murdered for daring to speak. […]

OP-ED JPost Op-Ed by ZOA Honoree and Supporter Ali Meli: The Failure of Iran Opposition’s Proposed Transition Plan

Iranian opposition’s Emergency Booklet needs constitutional integrity – opinion By allowing an open dialogue, a well-planned vision can genuinely renew Iran, bolstering Israel’s security and the US-Israel alliance against mutual foes. By Daniel Jafari, Ali Saadat Meli (September 8, 2025 / Jerusalem Post) In their August 31 Jerusalem Post op-ed, “Backing Pahlavi’s transition plan,” Saeed […]

OP-ED ZOA’s Morton Klein Op-Ed in USA Today ─ a Palestinian Arab State Would Be a Terrorist Dictatorship Increasing Likelihood of More Wars

Giving violent regimes their own territory or statehood does not moderate them. Iran’s mullahs have a state. The North Korean communists have a state. These rogue regimes use the legitimacy of sovereignty to further oppress, propagandize and perpetrate violence. A Palestinian state would be no different. By Morton A. Klein (August 29, 2025 / USA […]

OP-ED ZOA Michigan’s Freilich & Erez: Detroit Should Not Roll Out the Red Carpet for Convicted Terrorists ─ JNS

ZOA-Michigan calls on Michigan Gov. Whitmer, the City of Detroit, the Detroit Regional Convention Authority, and the counties of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb to condemn the inclusion of terror-linked speakers and make it clear that Michigan rejects providing extremists a stage. By Sheldon L. Freilich and Kobi Erez (August 28, 2025 / JNS) The government-owned […]