[NOTE: The following letter was written to condemn Sears’ sale of ring with swastika symbol. Sears has now removed the item from online circulation and taken down accompanying links.]  October 13, 2014   Dear Mr. Lampert:   We were appalled to learn that swastika rings are available for purchase on the Sears website.  Shockingly, these […]

Published October 06, 2014. Benjamin Netanyahu’s comparison between ISIS and Hamas, repeated in recent weeks from every podium in the U.S. and in every TV network interview, gained little traction with the Obama administration which made clear it does not see the two terror groups as equal. But it resonated well with at least one audience: Christian supporters of […]

October 3, 2014 The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed strong criticism of President Barack Obama for disgracefully threatening Israel with isolation and perhaps even a rupture in the U.S./Israel relationship by stating that Israel’s decision to build 2,500 apartments in the Givat Hamatos neighborhood in eastern Jerusalem “distance Israel from even its closest […]

Wednesday, October 1, 2014 — The cool elegance of the Metropolitan Opera’s opening night, precursor to a controversial season featuring John Adams’ “The Death of Klinghoffer,” was countered this week by a heated Jewish protest outside Lincoln Center.               An estimated crowd of 1,500 to 2,000, according to the protest’s organizers, were effusive in their […]

In recent days, a small fixture of Middle East ceasefire monitoring disintegrated, with scarcely anyone noticing. The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), the multinational force that had monitored the Israeli/Syrian ceasefire lines since 1974, disappeared as though it had never existed. Yet, in the view of Secretary of State John Kerry, an Israeli/Palestinian peace […]

I t is no secret that the eyewitnesses to the Nazi death camps, the liberators from the U.S. and Allied Armies, are themselves quickly dying off. They did their duty, most having no clue when they walked into the camps that the devastation and utter horror they would see, smell, and touch would linger with them […]

New York, September 4, 2014: A new poll has shown that a majority of Palestinian Arabs — 72% — support adopting Hamas’ military approach, used in Hamas-controlled Gaza to fight Israel, in Judea/Samaria as well. The poll, conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, also found: 61% of Palestinian Arabs would chose […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has written to Temple University President, Neil D. Theobald, condemning the vile anti-Semitic attack on a Temple University Jewish student by a member of or sympathizer with the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a group devoted to Israel’s elimination, and calling for SJP at Temple University to be […]