The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for his recent criticism at the 2014 AIPAC Policy Conference of “friends” who pressure Israel to accept so-called peace deals by warning them that, if they don’t, the movement against Israel will only strengthen. Senator Schumer said that such actions –– which are […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), at its 97th National Convention, held at the Hilton Hotel in Philadelphia, has re-elected National President Morton A. Klein, who garnered a landslide 93% of the vote of ZOA delegates from around the country. This reflected a clear mandate for Mort Klein’s leadership of the ZOA on behalf of Israel and the Jewish […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly criticized President Barack Obama’s remarks in a Bloomberg interview this week  in which he appears to have threatened Israel with isolation and lack of American support if it fails to follow his negotiating dictates, while whitewashing the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s Mahmoud Abbas –– who has consistently honored and glorified […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed concern at reports in the Israeli press that the Obama Administration is increasingly rejecting requests from Israeli citizens for visas to visit the United States. According to U.S. State Department records consulted by these reports, during 2013, 9.7% of Israelis who requested visas –– some 12,000 people […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ), agreeing with his recent forthright statements that Secretary of State John Kerry’s Munich speech amounted to the delivering of a veiled threat to Israel to accommodate American negotiating ideas or else face isolation and boycott; that the Obama Administration has adopted an “adversarial […]

The ZOA has expressed concern at the news that President Barack Obama is appointing Robert Malley, a former U.S. diplomat, an Israel-basher, advocate of U.S. recognition of major, unreconstructed terrorist groups Hamas and Hizballah, and proponent of containment of Iran (i.e., not preventing them from attaining nuclear weapons) as senior director at the National Security […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) expressed gratitude today that Mohammad Hammad, a student and the president of the anti-Israel student group at San Francisco State University (SFSU) – General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS) – is no longer a student at SFSU.  The ZOA is also pleased to learn that the San Francisco Police […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has made further criticisms of Secretary of State John Kerry’s Munich speech last week, in which he appeared to threaten Israel with isolation and boycott and Palestinian violence if peace talks fail. Rather than condemning these, Secretary Kerry suggested that these would be natural outcomes of Israeli non-acceptance of […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is strongly critical of President Barack Obama’s decision to issue an executive order permitting immigrants to the United States who have provided “limited material support” to terrorists who are believed to pose a threat to the U.S. The ZOA believes that weakening a major and obvious legal precaution against […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised actress Scarlett Johansson for her moral stance in resisting the extremist, anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) group’s pressure to drop her endorsement of SodaStream, the Israeli company which operates a factory in Ma’ale Adumim in Judea, a city of 50,000 Jews directly adjacent to Jerusalem beyond the […]