Members of the Jewish community should rest easy about President Donald Trump’s December 11 executive order on combating Anti-Semitism, despite concerns raised by Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz in his essay on Jewish identity (“Are you an American Jew or a Jewish American?” December. 25). The order does not define Jews as a race or nationality. […]

Week after week come new headlines of attacks upon Jews walking the streets of ordinary, traditionally Jewish New York neighborhoods. Since the beginning of December, there have been eight attacks on Jews, starting with the shooting assault on a Jersey City Jewish supermarket that left three innocent people dead. Quite simply, even a mere year or two […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned Representative Ilhan Omar (D–MN) for the hypocrisy of her respective stances on sanctions against Iran and sanctions against Israel.    This week, at a press conference, Rep. Omar condemned the Trump Administration’s intended sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran, saying that President Trump had “announced crippling […]

U.S. President Donald Trump and the American military and intelligence services should be praised for protecting American and Israeli lives by killing the head of the U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and the international leader of Hezbollah, arch-terrorist Qassem Soleimani; along with the commander of the Iranian-backed Iraqi FTO […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Chairman Mark Levenson, Esq. released the following statement: The ZOA supports the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) placing the UN votes and statements by Germany’s Ambassador to the United Nations Christoph Heusgen on the SWC’s “10 worst antisemitic incidents of 2019” list. The SWC cited Heusgen’s […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) released the following statement: American Jews are being traumatized, terrorized, targeted, and even murdered. Even our children are being physically assaulted by brutal antisemites. It’s long past time for public officials at all levels of government to throw the book – including federal domestic terrorism charges – at the […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised the Bundestag, the German parliament, for passing a non-binding resolution to ban activity on German soil of the Iranian proxy Lebanese Shia terrorist group, Hezbollah. It further urges Berlin to abandon the distinction it currently maintains, along with other European Union (EU) governments, between the political and […]

U.S. President Donald Trump issued a monumental Executive Order on Combating Anti-Semitism on Dec. 11, giving the U.S. government the tools it needed to fight campus anti-Semitism. Importantly, these tools cannot be taken away, unless this president or another overturns the order. The executive order requires that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of […]

A complaint filed by the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) to the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) concerning campus antisemitism at Duke University has been resolved. The university signed an agreement earlier this month to tackle antisemitism on campus, following an alleged anti-Israel conference in March that was co-sponsored together with the University […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Chairman Mark Levenson released the following statement:   It does tremendous damage to falsely accuse President Trump of supporting white nationalists, when the president in fact repeatedly, consistently and strongly condemned neo-Nazis and white nationalists, in word and deed.  ZOA is thus urging the Anti-Defamation […]