While the desire to separate from Gaza was “logical,” the disengagement itself led to Hamas’s takeover of the Strip “due to the Palestinian Authority’s weakness,” said the Israeli president. Uri Dagon and Yehuda Shlezinger (April 28, 2025 / Israel Hayom) Israeli President Isaac Herzog believes the 2005 disengagement from the Gaza Strip was a strategic […]

ZOA National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations had one of its very few Conference of Presidents votes back in 2005 on the forced Gaza removal of 9,000 Jews from their homes in Gaza, next to the Mediterranean Sea. After an organized debate on […]

(July 30, 2025 / Israel National News) Israel is not responsible to provide aid to Gaza, U.S. Senator Tom Cotton has clarified. “Obviously their generals and their political leadership understand the security situation at each particular distribution site better than I do, or better than a Palestinian American would,” Sen. Cotton said. “But I do […]

Additional Benefits Would Accrue by Better Dealing with Hate-Mongering Antisemitic Faculty & Monitoring/Training Personnel Also Concerned That Two Left Wing Organizations ADL and Shema Are Part of the Training Groups Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Director of Research and Special Projects Liz Berney, Esq. released the following ZOA […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: ZOA strongly praises President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for again withdrawing the United States from the antisemitic, anti-Israel so-called United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), effective on December 31, 2025. The U.S. State Department withdrawal announcement correctly […]

In 2004, ZOA filed the first-ever Title VI complaint alleging campus antisemitism that the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) agreed to investigate. Today, these legal tools—Title VI and the IHRA definition—are the backbone of efforts to protect Jewish students. They are now being used by many of the same organizations that once […]

Brandon Johnson, the Chicago mayor, decried the rise in antisemitic crimes and anti-gay crimes, which were up 25%. Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, told JNS that Johnson “only legitimizes, mainstreams and promotes antisemitism and Israel-bashing” by having “insensitively” worn a keffiyeh, which “symbolizes hatred of the Jewish state, alongside a […]

J Street, Israel Policy Forum, the Arab League UN Officials, UAE, China, Russia, Iran, Others Condemned Israel   Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: It seems that no matter what Israel does, no matter how humane, no matter how warranted to keep her own citizens and other […]

A Strong Deal Will Send a Much-Needed Message to All Universities Today, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), its National President, Morton A. Klein, and the director of ZOA’s Center for Law and Justice, Susan B. Tuchman, Esq., expressed concern about a potentially weak and inadequate agreement between Columbia University and the federal government that […]

By Jared Feldschreiber (July 16, 2025 / Queens Jewish Link) Mort Klein, a German-born American economist, statistician, and president of the Zionist Organization of America for three decades, has been praised as a voice of sanity for the Jewish community. While other American Jewish leaders have often been perceived as “emotional” and playing politics, Klein […]