U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison’s announced earlier this month that he wants to be the Democratic National Committee Chair.. A 2010 audio of Ellison speaking at a private fundraiser obtained by the Investigative Project on Terrorism calls such praise into question. In a fairly intimate setting, Ellison lashed out at what he sees as Israel’s disproportionate […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: ZOA urges former ADL Director Abe Foxman to publicly correct his false accusations that ZOA misled Mr. Foxman regarding ZOA’s gala dinner, that took place Sunday, November 20, 2016.  Mr. Foxman claims he wanted to come ZOA’s Dinner because his friend Home […]

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has backed away from its earlier accusations against Stephen K. Bannon, stating on its website: “We are not aware of any anti-Semitic statements from Bannon.” The statement appears at the end of an article on the ADL, “Stephen Bannon: Five Things to Know.” The “five things” are: Bannon has embraced the alt […]

Steve Bannon is a staunch supporter of the Jewish state who is committed to fighting anti-Semitism, asserted Aaron Klein, Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief. Klein was reacting to the baseless smears of anti-Semitism against Bannon, Breitbart’s former executive chairman who was named by President-elect Donald Trump earlier this week as the chief strategist of the new White […]

The frantic and fearful response by prominent Jewish leaders to Donald Trump’s election and to his appointment of Steve Bannon as senior advisor is unreasonable, irresponsible, and is damaging to our community.

   As Alan Dershowitz and the Zionist Organization of America explain, there is no reason whatsoever to think Steve Bannon is an anti-Semite. Quite […]

The Republican Jewish Coalition is defending Breitbart News chairman and newly-named chief White House strategist Steve Bannon from charges of anti-Semitism. “I have been shocked and saddened to see the recent personal attacks on Steve,” RJC board member Bernie Marcus said in a Tuesday statement to Time. “Nothing could be further from the truth.” President-elect […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: It is painful to see Anti-Defamation League (ADL) president Jonathan Greenblatt engaging in character assassination against President-elect Trump’s appointee Stephen Bannon and Mr. Bannon’s company, Breitbart media.  ADL/Greenblatt essentially accused Mr. Bannon and his media company of “anti-Semitism” and Israel hatred, when […]

Last month, The City University of New York (CUNY) released a report by two CUNY-hired lawyers to investigate allegations of campus anti-Semitism. The investigation was triggered by a 14-page letter from the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) to CUNY’s leadership, describing the anti-Semitic harassment and intimidation that students were enduring on four CUNY campuses, perpetrated […]

BY EMAIL AND FIRST-CLASS MAIL Park Slope Food Coop 782 Union Street Brooklyn, NY  11215 Dear Sir/Madam: We write to urge the Park Slope Food Coop (the “Coop”) to lift the one-year suspension that was imposed last April on four longstanding members of the Coop – as well as on the members of their respective […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has condemned the University of California (UC), Berkeley for reinstating an explicitly anti-Israel course dedicating to discussing and seeking ways in which to dismantle Israel, thereby robbing the Jewish people of national self-determination. The ZOA maintains that this would not be done in respect of a course that advocated […]