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 […]

77% Have Unfavorable View Of Palestinians A new poll, published by Gallup, has shown that Americans overwhelmingly have a favorable view of Israel and an unfavorable view of the Palestinians. The Gallup poll, released on March 7, 2013, showed that two-thirds of Americans (66%) have a favorable view of Israel, but only 15% have a […]

Obama Claim Untrue The Zionist Organizations of America (ZOA) has expressed concern at remarks reported to have been made by President Barack Obama during a recent meeting with leaders of Arab-American organizations ahead of his March 20 trip to Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA).  According to unnamed participants, President Obama is reported to have […]

President Obama is due to visit Israel on March 20 where, the next day, he is to deliver an address in Jerusalem’s Binyanei Ha’uma (International Convention Center) to Israeli university students. According to reports, students from Israeli universities received invitations to hear the president’s speech in Jerusalem – with the conspicuous exception of Ariel University. […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised the Obama Administration for the walk-out by U.S. Ambassador, Joseph McManus, from a meeting with Iranian diplomats after one of them accused Israel of “genocide.”  During a closed-door meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iranian Ambassador, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, launched into what has been described […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed heartfelt condolences to the family of Jacques Torczyner, legendary Zionist leader and former president of the ZOA, who passed away Thursday night at the age 98.   Born in Belgium in 1914, Jacques Torczyner came to the U.S. in 1940, having escaped the Nazi invasion of Belgium. He […]