Category Press Release
ZOA Praises Court Verdict: PA/PLO Responsible For Murder of Jews

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) praises the Manhattan jury verdict announced yesterday – after a decade-long legal battle and lengthy trial – which found that the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) knowingly supported six terrorist attacks in Israel in which American citizens were murdered and severely injured.  The jury award clearly […]

ZOA Executive Committee Unanimously Supports Netanyahu Address

The Executive Committee of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) unanimously and strongly supports Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to accept Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to address a joint session of Congress on issues of critical importance to the US, Israel, and the world, namely radical Islamic-terrorism and the Iran nuclear threat. The New […]

Poll: 43% Of Americans Want Netanyahu To Address Congress on Nukes

A new poll has shown a large plurality of Americans –– 43% to 25% –– favor Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing the U.S. Congress on the looming Iranian nuclear weapons threat, which Mr. Netanyahu is due to do on March 3.  The CNN/ORC poll, conducted by Paragon Insights and released this week, shows that […]

ZOA Condemns Pres. Obama’s Calling Clearly Anti-Semitic Terror Attack On Paris Kosher Supermarket As ‘Random’

The ZOA has condemned President Barack Obama for his remarks, compounded by those of his spokesman Josh Earnest, alleging that the deliberate assault on January 9 upon Hypercacher, a Jewish kosher supermarket in Paris was a ‘random’ assault. The ZOA insists on the blindingly obvious point that an attack on a Jewish supermarket, like an […]

ZOA to DePaul Board: Condemn SJP’s Fundraiser for Convicted Terrorist

February 10, 2015 Dear Members of the DePaul University Board of Trustees: We write to you on behalf of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the oldest and one of the largest pro-Israel organizations in the U.S., whose leaders have included U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver and Rabbi Stephen Wise.  […]

Appalled by Obama Admin. Hypocritical Interference with Israel Elections

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is appalled by the Obama administration’s hypocritical one-sided interference in Israel’s elections.  The Obama administration is refusing to extend ordinary courtesies towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the excuse that such contacts would improperly influence Israel’s elections.  At the same time, the Obama administration has been engaging in […]

After Anti-Semitic Vandalism, ZOA and 22 Other Groups Urge UC Davis Investigation

The ZOA and 22 other organizations today wrote to Linda P.B. Katehi, Chancellor of the University of California, Davis, urging an investigation into the conduct of the hate group, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and one of its members, Azka Fayyaz – who also is a student senator – and the imposition of sanctions […]

Condemnation of Speaking on Iran Reminiscent of Speech on Nazi Threat

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) issued the following statement today: Anti-Defamation League (ADL) leader Abe Foxman’s and Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) president Rick Jacobs’ shameful condemnation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for accepting the invitation to speak to a joint session of Congress about the Iranian nuclear threat to Jews and the […]

ZOA Criticizes Reform’s Jacobs, AIPAC, AJC, ADL, J St., for Pressuring Bibi to Cancel Speech to Congress

ZOA President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:  “The ZOA has criticized Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, for pressuring Israeli PM Netanyahu to cancel his critically important speech on Iran to a joint session of Congress.  Jacobs said it was ‘ill advised’ for Netanyahu to speak.  ADL’s Foxman and […]

ZOA Calls on DePaul U. to Condemn SJP Fundraiser for Convicted Terrorist

January 29, 2015  BY EMAIL AND FIRST CLASS MAIL Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider President, DePaul University Office of the President 1 East Jackson Boulevard Chicago, IL  60604-2287   Dear Reverend Holtschneider: On behalf of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the oldest and one of the largest pro-Israel organizations in the U.S., I write to […]