The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is understanding of Israeli Defense Minister and former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff, General Moshe Ya’alon stating that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is ignoring the realities of continuing Palestinian opposition to Israel’s existence.   General Ya’alon refuted Secretary Kerry’s insistence on the centrality of the conflict […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) mourns the passing of Ariel Sharon, Israeli war hero and Prime Minister (2001-6), who passed away over the weekend at the age of 85, following a long coma brought on by a stroke in 2006. The ZOA praised Ariel Sharon as a fearless warrior, a brilliant military strategist and […]

 The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the Obama Administration for its refusal to publicly criticize and condemn Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) for its inciting of Palestinians to hatred and murder against Jews/Israel –– but publicly criticizes Israel for building homes for Jews in Jewish neighborhoods of eastern Jerusalem.  In a State Department […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed to a recent declaration by a senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official, Ashraf Khatib, that Israel must free all jailed Palestinian terrorists, even if they have murdered Israelis during the current negotiations. The ZOA has condemned this astounding, obscene, Nazi-like PA position that any Palestinian who murders an […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has opposed and criticized President Barack Obama’s decision to increase aid to Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah/Palestinian Authority, which continues to incite Palestinians to hatred and murder of Jews, honors terrorists living and dead and pays them and their families salaries and stipends from funds provided by, among other countries, the […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) strongly supports the Israeli Government giving priority to the issue of Palestinian Authority (PA) incitement to hatred and murder of Jews and demonization of Israel in their schools, TV and radio, newspaper, magazines, sermons, speeches and children’s camps. As a report in the New York Times puts it, according […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the Israeli government for proceeding with an earlier decision to free 26 convicted and jailed Palestinian terrorists from Israeli jails as part of a phased freeing of 104 such terrorists. The freeing of the terrorists, decided upon in July 2013 and strongly opposed by the ZOA at […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the glaring hypocrisy and inconsistency of the Obama Administration for urging Israel to free Palestinian Arab terrorists with Jewish blood on their hands while simultaneously expressing outrage that Afghan President Hamid Karzai intends to free dozens of prisoners with the blood of Americans on their hands.  Just […]

ZOA criticized the December 18 Op-Ed in Politico authored by US Senators  Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Carl Levin (D-MI) for being wrong about one of the most important elements in the Interim Nuclear deal between Iran and the “P5+1.”  They state in their piece: “Under this initial agreement, at the end of six months Iran […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned Richard Falk, the Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories of the United Nations Human Rights Council, who said regarding Israel’s conduct towards the  Palestinian Arabs in a Russia Today interview that “when you target an ethnic group and inflict this kind of punishment, you are in effect […]