The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed to an important and little-reported finding by France’s Court of Appeals last week that has held that construction and development undertaken by Jews in Judea and Samaria is legal and does not violate international law. This landmark legal decision is completely contrary to the position taken by […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed criticism of Secretary of State John Kerry support for the so-called Arab Peace Initiative. First sponsored by Saudi Arabia in 2002 and endorsed the Arab League, the Arab Initiative demands, in return for Arab recognition and “normalized relations” – a vague proposition that avoids recognizing Israel as […]

A new poll has shown that an overwhelming 92% of Israelis are proud of their country, with three out of four Israelis (74%) regarding Israel as a good place to live their lives. The survey, conducted by New Wave Research and commissioned by Israel Hayom newspaper ahead of Israel Independence Day, shows a 5% increase […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has noted the recent overwhelming call in the Jordanian parliament for the release from prison of Musa Mustafa Daqamseh, the Jordanian soldier who in 1997 went on a rampage and murdered seven Israeli schoolgirls. The Jordanian parliament’s lower house, which has 120 legislators, produced an overwhelming 110 votes in […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has called upon the Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School to rescind its decision to bestow an award upon former President Jimmy Carter. This Wednesday, April 10, the Cardozo Law School, which is a part of New York City’s Yeshiva University (YU), is to bestow its International Advocate for Peace […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) today praised several important, positive statements made by President Barack Obama’s during his visit to Israel. In speeches delivered in Israel, President Obama testified to the millennia-old Jewish religious and historical bond with the land of Israel; the success of Zionism in transforming the Jewish people into a genuinely […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized and expressed concern at President Barack Obama’s speech delivered before a carefully selected audience of Israeli university students in Jerusalem in which he astonishingly urged students to loudly pressure the democratically-elected Israeli government towards a concessionary policy and on Palestinian statehood; uttered praise rather than criticism of […]

Rashid Khalidi, the ardently anti-Israel Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University who served in the 1970s and early 1980s as a director in Wikalat al-Anba al-Filastinija (WAFA), the PLO press agency, has written an opinion piece in the New York Times in which he not only remarkably criticized President Barack Obama […]

  The Israel director of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), Jeff Daube, has expressed dismay about President Barack Obama’s decision not to schedule an address at the Knesset as part of his late March visit to Israel. The ZOA also has objected to the exclusion of the Ariel University students from the list of […]