The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is deeply critical of the speech delivered to the Haaretz Israel Conference for Peace by Philip Gordon, the Obama Administration’s Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa, and the Gulf Region, in which Gordon:  Reiterated President Obama’s demand for Israel to withdraw with minor land swaps to the vulnerable […]

T he ZOA condemns in the strongest terms the vicious murder by burning alive of a 16-year old Arab boy, Muhammad Abu Khdeir. The boy was murdered by what appears to have been a violent underworld group of Jewish Israelis following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli youths –– Eyal Yifrah, 19, Gilad Shaar, […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has called for all governments, including the Obama Administration, to hold Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas accountable, now that the Fatah/PA has merged with the terrorist group Hamas, for Hamas rocket attacks launched upon Israel from Gaza. Abbas has neither condemned nor acted to stop the rocket attacks. […]

 The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the vote by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church USA to divest from three companies –– Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions and Hewlett-Packard –– that do business with Israel as anti-Semitism. As the Harvard University Law Professor Alan Dershowitz has written, “The BDS [Boycott, Sanctions, Divestment] movement is […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the France, Spain and Italy for issuing ‘warnings’ to their businesses not to conduct commerce with Jews living in Judea/Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. In recent days, Spain and Italy published advisories, warning their citizens against doing business with ‘settlements,’ just days after a similar advisory […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) mourns the deaths of the three Jewish Israeli youths –– Eyal Yifrah, 19, Gilad Shaar, 16, and Naftali Fraenkel, 16 –– snuffed out by Palestinian Arab terrorist murderers who abducted them earlier this month near Hebron. The corpses of the three teenagers were discovered earlier today by Israeli police, […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) welcomes the Metropolitan Opera and AMC Theaters decision canceling the planned live HD transmission of the anti-Semitic, anti-Israel Opera “Death of Klinghoffer” to 2,000 theaters in 66 countries around the world.  But it is distressing that the Metropolitan Opera has still not canceled the eight live performances of “Death […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the Obama Administration for responding to the formation of the new Hamas/Fatah Palestinian Authority (PA) unity government by saying that it will continue to financially aid the PA.   Hamas, a U.S.- and EU-recognized terrorist group, calls in its Charter for the global murder of Jews (Article 7) […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed to statements from top Hamas leaders indicating that the Fatah/Hamas reconciliation agreement does not mean a new Palestinian unity government for peace –– rather it means the extension of Hamas terrorism to Judea and Samaria from Gaza under a single PA regime.  Khaled Mashaal, leader of the […]

A new poll has shown that Americans, by a margin of two to one, hold Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) responsible for the recent breakdown in Israeli/Palestinian peace talks. The poll, conducted between May 2–14, 2014, by Paragon Insights for The Israel Project, found that 66% of Americans believe that, following the reconciliation agreement between […]