WASHINGTON — An executive order signed Wednesday that extends civil rights protection to Jews is likely to strengthen the hand of President Trump’s Education Department, where the department’s civil rights chief has been investigating some of the nation’s most elite universities for anti-Jewish bias. Mr. Trump, at a Hanukkah celebration at the White House, opened […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein, ZOA Chairman Mark Levenson, Esq., and Susan Tuchman, Esq., ZOA’s Director of Law and Justice, and staff and members wholeheartedly thank President Donald Trump and Jared Kushner for their wonderful planned Hanukkah gift to beleaguered Jewish students today.   The President will issue an executive order confirming […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned Fiona Hill, the former Director for European and Russian Affairs in the Trump Administration, for agreeing with her questioner, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) during the U.S. House impeachment hearings last week that “conspiracy theories … have been targeting you, spun in part by folks like Mr. Stone […]

Today, 450,000 Jews live in the heart of the Jewish homeland in Israel’s Judea and Samaria regions – the holy land where Jewish people lived and prayed for thousands of years. Judea/Samaria is where Abraham purchased a burial cave and surrounding lands; where the Maccabees fought off foreign invaders and Hellenists; where the shepherd David […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised the Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte and the Netherlands Parliament for passing a motion that repudiates the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decision ordering the labeling of goods produced by Israeli Jewish enterprises in Judea/Samaria.  “We strongly applaud the Rutte Government and the Dutch Parliament for backing […]

NEW YORK (JTA) — Those who care about Jewish college students should be celebrating a landmark legal victory in the fight against campus anti-Semitism. The victory stems from a civil rights complaint filed against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by our organization, the Zionist Organization of America. Triggered by the complaint, UNC agreed to […]

Dear Secretary Pompeo: On behalf of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the oldest pro-Israel organization in America, and our board and members throughout the United States, we thank you for affirming the truth that Jewish cities, towns, communities, homes, synagogues, businesses and universities, a.k.a. “settlements”, in the Jewish homelands of Judea/Samaria are legal under […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) urged University of Massachusetts (UMass) President Martin T. Meehan to issue a statement condemning the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, and expressing UMass’s opposition to the boycott of Israeli academic institutions and/or individual scholars. In a November 13, 2019 letter to President Meehan, the ZOA […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein, ZOA Chairman Mark Levenson, Esq. and ZOA Director of Special Projects Elizabeth Berney, Esq. released the following statement: President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo displayed tremendous courage, integrity and moral and legal clarity yesterday when the administration issued its historic, landmark decision acknowledging […]