Category Press Release
ZOA Criticizes Canada’s Changing Policy & Voting for Anti-Israel UN Resolutions

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the Canadian Government of Justin Trudeau for voting in favor of a series of biased and hostile anti-Israel United Nations General Assembly resolutions sponsored by various Arab states and other undemocratic, human-rights abusing regimes. The ZOA believes that, as a matter of principle and morality, no genuinely […]

ZOA Condemns Congress Members Who Praised Radical Islamic Israelophobic Group CAIR

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the 120 Members of Congress who have written letters of support for the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). The letters of support were chiefly from Democrats, plus two Republicans, and include 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Senators Elizabeth Warren (D–MA), Amy Klobuchar (D–MN) and Michael Bennet (D-CO). […]

OP-ED BY: By Susan B. Tuchman, Esq., Director of ZOA's Center for Law & Justice ZOA Op-Ed: Explaining Trump’s Order

Members of the Jewish community should rest easy about President Donald Trump’s December 11 executive order on combating Anti-Semitism, despite concerns raised by Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz in his essay on Jewish identity (“Are you an American Jew or a Jewish American?” December. 25). The order does not define Jews as a race or nationality. […]

OP-ED BY: Daniel Mandel JPost: Where are African-American leaders condemning antisemitism?

Week after week come new headlines of attacks upon Jews walking the streets of ordinary, traditionally Jewish New York neighborhoods. Since the beginning of December, there have been eight attacks on Jews, starting with the shooting assault on a Jersey City Jewish supermarket that left three innocent people dead. Quite simply, even a mere year or two […]

ZOA Criticizes Rep. Omar Who Calls For Sanctions on Ally Israel, But Decries Sanctions on Enemies Iran, Cuba & Venezuela

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned Representative Ilhan Omar (D–MN) for the hypocrisy of her respective stances on sanctions against Iran and sanctions against Israel.    This week, at a press conference, Rep. Omar condemned the Trump Administration’s intended sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran, saying that President Trump had “announced crippling […]

OP-ED BY: Morton A. Klein, President, ZOA, & Elizabeth Berney, Esq., ZOA Special Projects Director JNS: Trump Deserves Praise for Protecting Americans and Israelis by Killing Terror Leader

U.S. President Donald Trump and the American military and intelligence services should be praised for protecting American and Israeli lives by killing the head of the U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and the international leader of Hezbollah, arch-terrorist Qassem Soleimani; along with the commander of the Iranian-backed Iraqi FTO […]

ZOA Supports Wiesenthal Center Naming Germany’s UN Amb. Heusgen to Their 10 Worst Antisemitic Incidents List

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Chairman Mark Levenson, Esq. released the following statement: The ZOA supports the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) placing the UN votes and statements by Germany’s Ambassador to the United Nations Christoph Heusgen on the SWC’s “10 worst antisemitic incidents of 2019” list. The SWC cited Heusgen’s […]

Political, Religious, and African American Leaders Must Speak Out Against Horrific Anti-Jewish Hatred and Attacks

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) released the following statement: American Jews are being traumatized, terrorized, targeted, and even murdered. Even our children are being physically assaulted by brutal antisemites. It’s long past time for public officials at all levels of government to throw the book – including federal domestic terrorism charges – at the […]

ZOA Praises Germany Passing Resolution Calling on Berlin To Outlaw Hezbollah

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised the Bundestag, the German parliament, for passing a non-binding resolution to ban activity on German soil of the Iranian proxy Lebanese Shia terrorist group, Hezbollah. It further urges Berlin to abandon the distinction it currently maintains, along with other European Union (EU) governments, between the political and […]

OP-ED ZOA JNS Op-Ed: US Govt EO to Fight Antisemitism Should be Applauded-Not Disparaged

U.S. President Donald Trump issued a monumental Executive Order on Combating Anti-Semitism on Dec. 11, giving the U.S. government the tools it needed to fight campus anti-Semitism. Importantly, these tools cannot be taken away, unless this president or another overturns the order. The executive order requires that Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of […]