“This isn’t ‘peace through strength,’” Mort Klein, of ZOA, told JNS. “It is heartbreaking and infuriating and frightening that Israel’s government is agreeing to this deal.” By Izzy Salant (January 15, 2025 / JNS) American Jewish organizations largely lauded the ceasefire and hostage-release deal, which U.S. and Israeli officials announced on Wednesday, though noted that […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein, ZOA Director of Government Relations Dan Pollak and ZOA Deputy Director of Government Relations Adam Turner released the following statement: The Zionist Organization of America expressed strong disapproval and outrage with Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA)’s decision to re-hire former White House staffer Maher Bitar, who […]

By Susan B. Tuchman, Esq., Director of ZOA’s Center for Law & Justice, and Morton A. Klein, ZOA National President (January 16, 2025 / JNS) In these last few weeks of the Biden administration, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights resolved antisemitism complaints filed under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act […]

By Daniel Greenfield (January 17, 2025 / Front Page Mag) “The time may be soon to go back home,” Imam Husham Al-Husainy told CBS News. The year was 2003 and Al-Husainy, along with the other Iraqi Shiite ‘refugees’ filling Dearborn’s Muslim community, had gotten their fondest wish when the United States removed Saddam Hussein. Imam […]

By Sandy Fitzgerald (Thursday, January 16, 2025 / Newsmax) Zionist Organization of America President Morton Klein urged President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration committee to cancel a planned benediction by Shiite Imam Husham al-Husainy for his “alarming” history in connection with statements made about Hezbollah and Jews. “It would send a terrible message and place a black […]

By Liel Leibovitz (January 15, 2025 / NYP) The cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas is meant to be a first step, and we don’t know what happens next, or the promises that were made behind the scenes. It is possible that President-elect Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have agreed on this move […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: The ZOA urges the Trump inauguration committee to cancel the plans for Dearborn, Michigan Shia Iman Husham al-Husainy to give a benediction at President Trump’s inauguration next week. Al-Husainy’s recently reported history is alarming (see reports in JNS, New York Post, […]

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By JNS Staff (December 26, 2024 / JNS) The Zionist Organization of America said efforts by the National Association of Independent Schools didn’t go far enough in responding to criticism about antisemitic speech at its recent “People of Color Conference.” Morton Klein, national president of the ZOA, and Susan Tuchman, director of the group’s Center […]