Morton Klein, the President of the Zionist Organization of America, slammed Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for trying to smear him on Monday night ahead of Congressional testimony he is scheduled to give on Tuesday on hate crimes and white nationalism. Tlaib, who has come under criticism for promoting anti-Semitism, tweeted: “@HouseJudiciary will hold a hearing tomorrow […]
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) strongly urged President Claire E. Sterk of Emory University to take significant action following the distribution of mock eviction notices by Emory Students for Justice in Palestine (ESJP) on April 2, 2019, which caused Jewish students to feel threatened and intimidated. The notices contained false information calculated to incite hatred […]
Perhaps the most remarkable and disquieting aspect of the revelation that 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders is employing three senior advisers with records of involvement in anti-Semitic incidents is the disinterest it has engendered in Democratic circles across the board. First, it emerged that Senator Sanders’ campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, and his senior […]
ZOA Government Relations Department Director Dan Pollak and Deputy Director Joel Kassiday were instrumental in helping Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) gain the signatures of 19 bipartisan lawmakers on a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo requesting the extradition to the U.S. of Alhan Aref Ahmad-Tamimi from Jordan. Al-Tamimi has been charged by the U.S. […]
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein, ZOA Chairman Mark Levenson, Esq., and ZOA Director of Special Projects Liz Berney, Esq. released the following statement: It’s strange, troubling and hypocritical that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), AIPAC, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the Israel Policy Forum (IPF) condemned the technical merger of two small right-wing […]
Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: “In light of Rep Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) vicious anti-Semitic, anti-Israel, anti-American statements and positions, the Zionist Organization of America respectfully urges refugee resettlement contractor HIAS, Inc. to retract its statements honoring radical Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar, especially including HIAS’s statement that Omar […]
Though Israelis are scarcely surprised by the phenomenon of Palestinian terrorism, they were nonetheless sickened by the recent rape of a 19-year old girl, Ori Ansbacher, by Arafat Irfaiya, a 29-year old Palestinian Arab from Hebron. Upon capture by Israeli forces, Irfaiya made plain the motive underlying his foul deed when he told his interrogators, […]
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned Syracuse University for offering college credit to students who intern for the Syracuse Peace Council (SPC), an organization that promotes the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The two majors courses, ‘the Citizenship and Civic Engagement’ (CCE) and the ‘Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition’ majors issue college […]
On Sunday, February 10, 2019, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) presented a program on campus anti-Semitism to 35 parents and 20 high school seniors at the Bergen County High School of Jewish Studies (BCHSJS) in Bergen County, NJ. Offering a variety of courses on Sunday mornings, as well as a breadth of social and […]
ZOA Florida is very excited to announce its first fundraising dinner, chaired by new board member Liz Brauser and honoring “Heroes for Israel,” Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and Rabbi Eliot Pearlson and his wife, Judy. The dinner will take place on the evening of Sunday, December 16th, at the Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center. David Webb, Fox […]
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