The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) and the University of Pennsylvania’s Middle East Center plan to meet in late 2018 in the wake of the latter hosting an event co-sponsored by Breaking the Silence, an organization of Israeli military veterans dedicated to opposing the Jewish state’s military and civilian presence in Judea and Samaria. Morton […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein and Director of Special Projects Liz Berney, Esq. released the following statement: ZOA opposes the  Israeli Supreme Court’s decision overturning the Israeli government’s order to deport Lara Alqasem, the terrorist-supporting recent chapter president of the violent BDS and hate group, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). The […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: The ZOA strongly praises the Trump administration and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for today announcing that the U.S. Consulate General (which really dealt with Palestinian Arabs) in Jerusalem will be merged into a single diplomatic mission, in the beautiful new U.S. […]

Russian Jews have suffered great persecution over the centuries. Many of them have chosen to come to America to seek refuge and freedom from oppression. It is disturbing that the New Yorker, in a recent article by Sheelah Kolhatkar titled “The Growth of Sinclair’s Conservative Media Empire,” chose to focus on the nationality of such […]

ZOA NY Metro hosted its second successful program, Eastern, Central and Western Europe, 2018:  70+ Years Post-Holocaust – is it safer to be a Jew and/or Zionist in Warsaw or in Paris?   on October 9th at ZOA headquarters in NYC. Matthew Tyrmand, author, journalist and advisor to the Polish government spoke to the quality of […]

During two successive press briefings last week, U.S. State Department spokespersons made it clear that “it’s ultimately up to the Government of Israel, or any country for that matter, to decide which individuals, which Americans, it wants to let in” (Oct. 9), and “Israel is a sovereign nation that can determine who enters” the country. […]

We are issuing the following press release, drafted two years ago, regarding detailed polling of prevailing Palestinian Arab attitudes towards Israel, Jews, terrorism, peace and so on, as an illustration of the regrettable and tragic reality that little to nothing has changed in the intervening two years.  All these attitudes are all-too-faithfully represented by the […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) commended the University of Michigan (U-M) today for disciplining Professor John Cheney-Lippold for refusing to write a recommendation letter for a deserving student because she wanted to study in Israel.  The Detroit News reported last evening that it obtained a letter signed by Elizabeth Cole, the interim dean of […]

October 8, 2018 VIA EMAIL President Mark S. Schlissel University of Michigan 2074 Fleming Administration Building 503 Thompson Street Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1340 University of Michigan Board of Regents 500 S. State Street Ann Arbor, MI  48109 Dear President Schlissel and Honorable Members of the Board of Regents:            On September 21, we submitted a complaint […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has urged the European Parliament to cease aid to Mahmoud Abbas’ anti-Jewish hatred-inciting Palestinian Authority (PA), a measure which is currently under consideration. The EU is the largest financial donor of the PA.   The European Parliament’s Budgetary Control Committee is due to vote in late October on an […]