The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed to several alarming instances of Iranian violations of the July 21015 Vienna nuclear deal, which ostensibly prevents Iran from developing a nuclear weapons capacity and to the fact that President Barack Obama is ignoring all these violations. The international sanctions imposed on Iran for its nuclear program […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for omitting Israel from a number of countries he mentioned in remarks condemning recent terrorist attacks upon civilians. The ZOA notes that Israel has been the most consistent target of terrorist attacks for decades and has lost the lives of over 1,500 […]

Morton A. Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) issued the following statement:   President Obama’s terrorism speech was a frightening disgrace. Not only was there no new policy, but it was filled with falsehoods about the daily intelligence briefings. It misled us on his exaggerated bombing raids, intimidated Americans into silence of […]

ZOA president Morton A. Klein released the following statement: The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is concerned that at the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) candidates’ forum yesterday, when asked if he acknowledged Jerusalem as the undivided Capital of Israel, Donald Trump stated that he will wait until after his upcoming visit with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]

A poll of 1363 Palestinian Arabs (including 863 living in Judea and Samaria and 500 living in Gaza), conducted by An-Najah National University’s Center for Polls and Survey Studies, from November 20 to 22, 2015, reveals that Palestinian Arabs overwhelmingly reject a Palestinian state that would live in peace with Israel as a final resolution; […]

Morton A. Klein, president, Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), issued the following statement: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued appalling and woefully inadequate remarks on the Secretary’s meetings last week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and PLO Chairman / Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas.  Secretary Kerry again failed to condemn or even […]

Over 1,100 people attended the Zionist Organization of America’s (ZOA) 117th Louis D. Brandeis Award Dinner on Sunday, November 22 at New York City’s elegant Grand Hyatt Hotel. Major ZOA donors provided tables for 219 student activists from various universities who attended.   Israeli Ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Ron Dermer; newly-appointed Israeli […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) today welcomed the release of Jonathan Pollard. Mr. Pollard is the only American citizen sentenced to life in prison for passing classified information to a US ally – in this case Israel. He has been behind bars since his arrest in 1985. After finally giving him official recognition as […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed to Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ recent open admission that he turned down then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s 2008 peace offer and made no counter-offer. Abbas had never publicly admitted that he turned down Mr. Olmert’s offer, which would have provided for an independent Palestinian state […]

Morton A. Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) released the following information: The Chairman of the Counterterrorism and Intelligence Subcommittee of the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, Congressman Peter King (NY) recently stated “there is absolutely no way — no real way of vetting, to any extent, these refugees coming in. […]