Category Press Release
ZOA Mourns the Passing of Former Israeli PM Shimon Peres

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein issued the following statement: The ZOA sends our sincere condolences to the family of former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres on the passing last night of their beloved father, grandfather and great-grandfather.  Peres made enormous contributions to rebuilding Israel, from a deserted wasteland into the revitalized […]

ZOA Critical of Obama’s Calling Judea/Samaria ‘Palestinian Lands’

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized and taken issue with President Barack Obama’s use of the politicized formulation, ‘Palestinian land,’ when referring to the legally designated Jewish homeland in Judea/Samaria (the West Bank) in his address this week to the United Nations General Assembly. In his address, President Obama referred briefly to the […]

ZOA Critical of J St/ Peace Now for Urging Congress Maintain Iran Deal Despite Violations

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the far left J Street and Peace Now for urging Congress to continue to uphold the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the agreement on Iran’s nuclear weapons program reached in Vienna in July 2015, despite the noncompliance by Iran with its very few commitments under the […]

ZOA Condemns UC Berkeley Course Which Explores Ways To Destroy Israel

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the University of California (UC), Berkeley for reinstating an explicitly anti-Israel course dedicating to discussing and seeking ways in which to dismantle Israel, thereby robbing the Jewish people of national self-determination. The ZOA maintains that this would not be done in respect of a course that advocated […]

ZOA Announces High School Fellowship Program in Florida

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is proud to announce its first ZOA High School Fellowship, being piloted at Scheck Hillel Community School in North Miami Beach, Florida. In addition to ZOA’s tremendous work and involvement on college campuses, the ZOA High School Fellowship aims to prepare students-before they get to college-for what they will […]

Obama Admin. Twists Netanyahu’s Accurate Statement – That PA Demands a Jew-Free “Palestine”

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the Obama Administration for cynically twisting the words of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, when the latter recently accurately pointed out the outrageousness of international toleration of the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s demand that a future Palestinian state be Jew-free, making the issue into one of Jewish residence […]

ZOA APPALLED BY CUNY REPORT ON ANTI-SEMITISM THERE

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) today strongly criticized the report prepared by attorneys Barbara Jones and Paul Shechtman who were engaged to conduct an independent investigation of allegations of anti-Semitism on the campuses of The City University of New York (CUNY).  The investigation was triggered by a February 22, 2016 14-page letter from the […]

ZOA: Remembering the Victims and Heroes of 9-11 and their Families, Reflecting on 9-11

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: Our hearts and thoughts are with the victims and heroes of 9-11 and their families, as we approach this fifteenth anniversary of 9-11 (2001), and the fourth anniversary of the ‘Benghazi 9-11’ (in 2012).   We join all those who lost loved ones […]

ZOA Condemns Evangelical Lutheran Church for Supporting Anti-Semitic BDS

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) today condemned the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) for recently adopting two resolutions at its triennial assembly in New Orleans, calling for an “investment screen” that is a first step in implementing boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel and for calling for cutting off U.S. aid to […]

ZOA Welcomes Brussels Airlines’ Decision to End Anti-Semitic Boycott of Israeli Halva

Zionist Organization of America President Morton Klein issued the following release: The ZOA welcomes and thanks Brussels Airlines and its parent company Lufthansa for their prompt decision to once again serve halva produced by the Israeli company Achva on Brussels Airlines’ flights.   Achva is located in Israel’s Samaria region near the Israeli city of Ariel.  […]