Category Op-Ed
OP-ED ZOA’s Tuchman/Klein – JPost Op-Ed: U.S. Jewish Students are Not Protected By U.S. Civil Rights Office

By Susan B. Tuchman, Esq. and Morton A. Klein (NOVEMBER 27, 2021 / JPOST) If you’re worried about rising campus antisemitism and its impact on young Jews, you’ll be alarmed to know that the one federal agency tasked with addressing this problem – the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) – has […]

OP-ED ZOA’s Mort Klein’s JPost Oped – Biden Opposing Building Jewish Homes in Judea Samaria is Antisemitic

By Morton A. Klein, ZOA National President (OCTOBER 30. 2021 / JERUSALEM POST) U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Defense Minister Benny Gantz that Israel’s plan to approve a minimal number of desperately needed Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria was “unacceptable.” Blinken also imperiously and condescendingly demanded that he “expects Israel to pay greater […]

OP-ED NEW YORK POST: Democratic Leaders’ Shocking Silence Over Attacks on Israel by Fellow Dems

By Douglas Schoen and Andrew Stein (OCTOBER 26, 2021 / NEW YORK POST) We’ve often sounded alarms over fellow Democrats who demonize Israel. But lately, even our party’s establishment and its leaders have become complicit in the consequences — by failing to denounce these attacks. Voters need to demand that top officials from both parties speak […]

OP-ED ZOA’s Klein J Post Op-ed – Israel Can’t Submit to Biden Pressure on Consulate, Settlements

By Morton A. Klein, ZOA National President (OCTOBER 20, 2021 / JERUSALEM POST) Since last spring, the Biden administration has pressured Israel to allow the U.S. to reopen a separate consulate, solely for Palestinian Arabs, in the heart of Israel’s capital, Jerusalem. In order to uphold Israel’s legal, moral and sovereign rights and security, Prime […]

OP-ED ZOA Tuchman/Klein Op-Ed: California Committee Must Reject the Antisemitic Ethnic-Studies Bill | JNS

It Will Encourage Hatred of Jews and Israel, Which Graduating High School Students Might Bring to College Campuses and Beyond By Morton A. Klein, ZOA National President & Susan B. Tuchman, Esq., Director of ZOA’s Center for Law and Justice (AUGUST 24, 2021 / JNS) California’s Senate Appropriations Committee is scheduled to vote this week on AB […]

OP-ED Melanie Phillips, JNS: When the Jew-Bashers are Jews

By Melanie Phillips (AUGUST 12, 2021 / JNS) The latest move by President Joe Biden to appall many American Jews as an act of wanton hostility is his appointment of the progressive rabbi, Sharon Kleinbaum, to the U.S. commission on International Religious Freedom. Kleinbaum has been accused of repeatedly using her pulpit at New York’s Beit Simchat Torah—the […]

OP-ED J. Tobin-JNS: Is the ADL a Greater Threat to Liberty Than the Extremists It Targets?

By Jonathan Tobin (AUGUST 9, 2021 / JNS) Americans woke up to a new reality last month when the Biden administration revealed that it was “flagging” social media posts that it wanted Facebook to censor. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the motive for this unprecedented move was to combat “misinformation” about COVID-19. But after a […]

OP-ED New Temple U President Jason Wingard Misled Its Board About Anti-Israel Tides Foundation Which He Chaired

By ZOA National President Morton A. Klein (AUGUST 4, 2021 / JNS) As a Temple University alumnus and an Israel-supporter, it’s deeply troubling that Temple and its leaders have not held its new presidential choice, Dr. Jason Wingard, accountable for chairing the anti-Israel, antisemitic Tides Foundation and serving on the Tides Center board, at the very […]

OP-ED Melanie Phillips Praises ZOA: “Once Again, Only ZOA Exposes a Truth Jews Afraid to Cite”- Problems With Lipstadt

Phillips: “Biggest Danger to Jews is Islamists & Leftists like Black Lives Matter” By Melanie Phillips (AUGUST 5, 2021 / JNS) U.S. President Joe Biden’s choice of Emory Professor Deborah Lipstadt as America’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism has not been greeted with the unqualified approval that might have been expected for such an appointment. Lipstadt […]

OP-ED Deborah Lipstadt Should be Voted Down by the Senate

By Jackson Richman (AUGUST 03, 2021 / WASHINGTON EXAMINER) President Joe Biden announced last Friday he would nominate Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt to be the U.S. Ambassador to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism. It’s a pick that would have been phenomenal in another era and unanimously confirmed by the Senate. Unfortunately, as a Biden surrogate during the 2020 […]