The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is shocked and has strongly criticized Brandeis University’s decision to rescind the awarding of an honorary degree to Ayaan Hirsi Ali at Brandeis’ commencement ceremony in May.  Ms. Hirsi Ali is a brave and outspoken author, scholar and advocate for the civil rights of women and girls around the […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed to the surreal situation in which Israel is presently under American pressure to make concessions to Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah/Palestinian Authority (PA) when Abbas’ PA actively continues to deny the Jewish connection to Israel in general and Jerusalem in particular and to demand an end to Jewish rights […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), which has fought long and hard to secure the release of long-jailed Jonathan Pollard by lobbying legislators, meeting government officials, writing articles, letters and press releases urging his release, nonetheless and with a heavy heart opposes the Obama Administration’s proposal that he be freed in return for unjust, unwise […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) strongly opposes the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC)/NY Federation for granting permission to groups that promote boycotts of Israeli companies in Judea/Samaria to march in the Israel Day Parade, which is taking place on June 1, 2014 in New York City. These groups encourage the Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has called upon the Obama Administration to end talks and funding for the Palestinian Authority (PA) following the three no’s PA president Mahmoud Abbas’  gave to President Barack Obama ––– no acceptance of Israel as a Jewish state; no renunciation of the legally baseless so-called ‘right of return,’ whereby […]

The anti-Zionist George Soros-funded extremist, fake pro-Israel, J Street, which falsely bills itself as a “pro-Israel, pro-peace” organization, have backed the Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. This shows again that J Street, despite its protestations, is an organization that takes positions that are opposed even by the left-wing Israeli political parties […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is deeply concerned and critical of President Barack Obama for praising Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas as “somebody who has consistently renounced violence, has consistently sought a diplomatic and peaceful solution that allows for two states, side by side, in peace and security” (‘Remarks by President Obama and […]

In a March 12, 2014 post on the Israel-bashing website Mondoweiss.net, extremist Max Blumenthal condemned Northeastern University’s recent decision to suspend the so-called “Students for Justice in Palestine” (SJP) group, after the SJP put mock eviction notices under students’ doors in several Northeastern residence halls.  The notices contained false and demonizing information about Israel and […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) sent a letter  yesterday to Dr. Joseph E. Aoun, the president of Northeastern University in Boston, MA, strongly praising Northeastern for promptly and appropriately disciplining the anti-Semitic student group that calls itself “Students for Justice in Palestine” (SJP).  At the close of the SJP’s annual anti-Semitic “Israel Apartheid Week,” […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is pleased and proud to announce that Brooklyn College President Karen L. Gould issued a public statement last Friday, apologizing in full to the four Jewish students who were forcibly thrown out of an anti-Israel, anti-Semitic boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) event at Brooklyn College on February 7, 2013.  […]