Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) criticizes 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I–VT) for employing three figures as senior staffers on his campaign, Faiz Shakir and Matthew Duss, who come with histories of involvement with anti-Semitism while both served at the left-wing think tank, the Center for American Progress (CAP), and Belén Sisa. The […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein and Chair Mark Levenson, Esq. released the following statement: ZOA previously explained in detail that the watered-down House “Antisemitism” resolution passed yesterday fails to even mention the major antisemitism problem of violent Islamist attacks on Jews; fails to mention that Congresswomen Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Alexandrea […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton Klein and ZOA Chair Mark Levenson, Esq. released the following statement: The woefully inadequate, watered-down, distorted, so-called “antisemitism” House resolution that passed today fails to even mention the major antisemitism problem of violent Islamist attacks on Jews, or that Congresswomen Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Alexandrea […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein, ZOA Vice Chairman Dr. Alan Mazurek, M.D., and ZOA Director of Special Project Elizabeth Berney, Esq., released the following statement:   Prominent Democratic Congressman James Clyburn (S.C.) had the gall to defend antisemitic Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) by claiming that Omar had a more “personal” and “powerful” experience […]

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: The House Democrats’ toothless, counterproductive, disappointing draft resolution on antisemitism, scheduled to be voted on tomorrow, sends a distressing message to American Jewry that the House Democratic leadership will do […]

Please call your House members to urge them to call on Speaker Pelosi to remove anti-Semitic Rep. Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee Please call your U.S. House Members today (or as soon as you can) at 202 224-3121 and urge him/her to formally request that Speaker Nancy Pelosi remove Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton Klein and ZOA Director of Special Projects Elizabeth Berney, Esq. released the following statement: The anti-Israel United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sank to a new low when its extremely biased 3-person “Commission on Inquiry” published and widely publicized an absurd report that condemns and blames and defames Israel for […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned Rep. Ilhan Omar (D–MN) for agreeing to be keynote speaker at a fundraiser for the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR).  CAIR is a Saudi-funded, radical Islamic organization whose founder is on record praising suicide bombers and saying he would like the Quran to be the highest […]

WASHINGTON. D.C. — The Zionist Organization of America has appointed long-time top Capitol Hill aide Joel D. Kassiday as Deputy Director of Government Relations.        “We are delighted to have a committed Zionist with Joel’s vast public affairs expertise and wide depth of congressional staff experience join us,” said ZOA President Morton A. Kein. The oldest […]

Amid American Jewish criticism over Otzma Yehudit Party, concern arises about language By Sean Savage and Jackson Richman (February 26, 2019 / JNS) The fallout over the recent merger of Otzma Yehudit with the Jewish Home Party—a bid by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to bolster his right-wing coalition ahead of April 9 elections—appears to […]