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 […]

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 […]

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.  […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has noted that, just days after President Obama’s spokesmen accused House Speaker John Boehner of “breaking protocol” by inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress, a team of up to five Obama campaign operatives has reportedly arrived in Israel to lead a campaign […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) praises the Jewish Community Relations Council-NY Federation (JCRC) for issuing 2015 Marching Group Rules which state that all groups that march in the 2015 New York City Israel Day Parade must “oppose, not fund, nor advocate for” anti-Israel anti-Jewish boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS). These rules aptly focus on […]