Months ago, President Biden nominated longtime Democrat donor Elizabeth Frawley Bagley to serve as ambassador to Brazil. At her confirmation hearing in May, she faced bipartisan condemnation for a 1998 interview in which she claimed that Democrats entertained “stupid” pro-Israel viewpoints because of “the Jewish factor” and echoed old antisemitic tropes, saying, “There is always […]

By Morton A. Klein, ZOA National President (DECEMBER 9, 2022 / THE FEDERALIST) Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff brought together representatives of a handful of Jewish organizations — notably not the ones who’ve taken issue with Biden policies that hurt Jews and Israel — to discuss Jew-hatred in a Wednesday roundtable on antisemitism. While this roundtable […]

By Joel Pollak (DECEMBER 6, 2022 / BREITBART) Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the oldest pro-Israel group in the United States, slammed President Joe Biden Monday for an “antisemitism summit” that excludes conservative groups. The “roundtable,” to be held Wednesday, will be chaired by Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, who is […]

The Zionist Organization of America and other Jewish groups who have criticized left-wing Jew-hatred and Biden’s hostile-to-Israel policies and appointments have been purposely excluded from the event. NEW YORK, NY (December 6, 2022) – The Zionist Organization of America, the leading major American Jewish organization unapologetically defending Israel and the Jewish people, was not invited […]

The U.N. Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, tweeted that he was “horrified” that a Palestinian terrorist was killed in what he called a “scuffle” with Israeli border police and sent “heartfelt condolences to his bereaved family.” The terrorist, armed with a knife, had tried to break into a civilian vehicle and was […]

Last month, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) wrote a letter, co-signed by hundreds of GW students, alumni and others, to Dr. Mark S. Wrighton, president of The George Washington University (GW), urging him to take more forceful steps in response to recent horrific antisemitic campus incidents that occurred over the Jewish holidays. GW has […]

In a clearly intended threat to Israel, regime-friendly Iranian media published a list of “sensitive” sites that could be targeted in a future war, including the Knesset, the Prime Minister’s Office, the Defense Ministry, Ben-Gurion International Airport, the Ramon airport near Eilat, and universities such as the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot and the Technion – Israel […]

By Morton A. Klein, ZOA National President (November 20, 2022 / JNS) “Democracy is at stake” was a major theme voiced by President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party throughout the recent U.S. midterm elections. For instance, during a November 2 speech entitled “On Standing Up for Democracy,” in which Biden accused “MAGA Republicans” of voter intimidation, the […]

Last week, Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-09) and 11 fellow Democrats sent a letter to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy urging them to condemn former President Donald Trump’s remarks to the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) November 13th and on his social media platform, Truth Social, on October 16th for […]

Recently, AMCHA Initiative, a non-profit dedicated to investigating, documenting, and combating antisemitism at American colleges and universities, issued a report, Campus Antisemitism & the Assault on Jewish Identity, detailing a pervasive and relentless assault on Jewish identity leading to documented attacks on Jewish and pro-Israel students. Some key findings: Incidents involving threats to Jewish identity were found […]