American Jews are now embroiled in an important election battle over the U.S. seats at the World Zionist Congress (WZC) for the next five years. Record numbers of Jewish U.S. residents have been casting votes in this online election, which ends on March 11. The World Zionist Congress has a major impact on both Israel and […]

The once-every-five-year election for the 2020 World Zionist Congress began on Jan. 21. Ever since, the ZOA Coalition has been inundated with questions about what our slate stands for, how people can vote for us and why this election for the World Zionist Congress—the parliament of the Jewish people—is so important. The ZOA Coalition slate (Slate No. […]

ZOA President Morton Klein and Chair Mark Levenson and ZOA regional director Steve Feldman released the following statement: The Zionist Organization of America is horrified that Major League Baseball, known as “America’s Pastime,” would promote Roger Waters, one of the world’s most vicious and vile Jew-haters and Israel-haters,especially in an era when attacks against American […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Chair Mark Levenson, Esq. released the following statement: ZOA President Morton Klein was proud be at the White House ceremony this week with President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu when they announced the plan to end the Arab/Islamic war against Israel. Klein and […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Chairman Mark Levenson, Esq. released the following statement: The ZOA praises the following aspects of President Trump’s “Peace to Prosperity” Plan: The Plan acknowledges that the territory that Israel is being asked to transfer is “territory to which Israel has asserted valid legal and historical […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) agrees with former Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister (2018-19) and current Italian Senator and Federal Secretary of the Northern League Party, Matteo Salvini, who has observed that astonishingly high levels of anti-Semitism in Muslim societies means that Muslim immigration to Western countries results in increased anti-Semitism in […]

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 […]

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). […]

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. […]

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 […]