November 29, 1947 — seventy years ago today — was a momentous day in Jewish history. Jews throughout the world sat glued to their radios, listening as the United Nations General Assembly voted for UNGA Resolution 181 (often referred to as the “partition resolution”). The Jewish community celebrated the resolution’s passage, for it confirmed that […]

On November 7, 2017, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing examining anti-Semitism on college campuses.  The ZOA’s letter to the Committee was included in the record of the hearing.  The text of the letter is below.    Dear Chairman Goodlatte, Ranking Member Conyers, and Honorable Members of the House Judiciary Committee:             On behalf […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has opposed the Trump Administration not going forward, as initially claimed, to close the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) office in Washington, D.C., which ignores continuing Palestinian Authority (PA) violations of the Oslo Accords.These violations require that the PLO office be shuttered.  The PLO office was opened in 2010 during […]

On June 30, 2016, a 17-year-old Palestinian-Arab teenage terrorist broke into the home of an American Jewish family in Kiryat Arba, Israel, and deliberately, brutally stabbed to death a young innocent 13-year-old Jewish-American-Israeli girl who was sleeping in her bed, Hallel Yaffa Ariel.  The Palestinian-Arab teenage terrorist then inflicted multiple stab wounds on a Jewish […]

Ms. Sarsour is back in the news again, due to The New School’s plan to feature Ms. Sarsour on a panel later this month, that the New York Post aptly described as follows: “It’s the very definition of Orwellian: a panel titled “Anti-Semitism and the Struggle for Justice” that’s actually meant to promote Israel-bashing.” (“The […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised the Anti-Defamation League’s head Jonathan Greenblatt for his forthright and apt criticism of New York’s The New School for inviting as a panelist on the subject of  ‘Antisemitism and the Struggle for Justice’, the anti-Israel terrorist praising Linda Sarsour. Greenblatt’s declaration is especially needed and important since […]

It was completely wrong for Bret Stephens to criticize Steve Bannon’s appearance at the Zionist Organization of America’s (ZOA) gala and to defame Bannon as an “anti-Semitic Zionist . . . who embraces anti Semites.”  (“Steve Bannon is Bad for the Jews,” Stephens, 11/16/17.)  I am a child of Holocaust survivors; the Nazis murdered most […]

A crowd of 1,200 attended the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)’s 119th Louis D. Brandeis Award National Dinner on Sunday, November 12, at New York City’s elegant Grand Hyatt Hotel. Amidst the night’s truly extraordinary list of VIPs, honorees included the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman; Senator Tom Cotton (R–AK), former Democratic Senator and […]

The following was released by Morton Klein, president, Zionist Organization of America, Josh London and Dan Pollak, Co-Directors of ZOA Government Relations Department: Today, the Zionist Organization of America has asked supporters of Israel to reach out to their Congressional representatives in the House Foreign Affairs Committee in qualified support of the latest version of […]

Dr. Miri and Sheldon Adelson provided the following statement to be read at The Zionist Organization of America’s (ZOA) Louis Brandeis Gala Award Dinner held on Nov. 12 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in NYC.  “We sincerely regret that we can’t be with you tonight but we want to wish the ZOA our best wishes […]