In defense of recent criticism for attacking Jewish activists on the University of California, Irvine (UCI) campus, the leadership of the Jewish Federation of Orange County (JFOC – ed. note: Irvine is in Orange County, California) attempted to vindicate themselves and affirm their “pro-Israel bona fides” in the media.  Certainly, many of JFOC’s actions, past and present, […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) strongly praises both houses of the Illinois legislature for unanimously passing anti-boycott bills HB4011 and SB1761, and strongly praises Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner for pledging to sign this important anti-boycott legislation.   Governor Rauner tweeted: “Looking forward to signing #SB1761 making IL first in the nation to fight BDS against […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) urges Mahmoud Abbas a/k/a Abu Mazen to heed Pope Francis’ advice to become an angel of peace.   Abbas obtained his PhD in Holocaust denial, financed the brutal massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, co-founded the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) terror group, and has continued to promote terror […]

President Barack Obama’s refusal to take a stand on protests in Iran stands in sharp contrast to demands he has made on Israel, Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, says in a Newsmax interview. “I think he should take a strong stand to support the protesters in Iran who want to transform […]

The deafening silence of President Barack Obama after the terrorist attack by two Islamic jihadists from Arizona on 200 innocent Americans at a “Draw the Prophet” event in Garland, Texas is deeply disturbing and perplexing.  Such Islamic extremists claim that under Muslim Sharia law, the death penalty must be invoked against anyone who draws images […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) strongly praises Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Rob Portman (R-OH) for sponsoring the bipartisan United States-Israel Trade Enhancement Act of 2015 (S.619) and Congressman Peter Roskam (R-IL) and Juan Vargas (D-Cal) for sponsoring the United States-Israel Trade and Commercial Enhancement Act of 2015 (HR.825).  In addition, ZOA strongly praises […]

Call it the other Israel election. The World Zionist Congress — a global Zionist body that formed more than a century ago but retains significant influence in Israel — is holding elections for US delegates to its global assembly. At stake is leadership of an organization that helps manage agencies in Israel with budgets in […]

The uproar over the Virginia State Bar’s decision to cancel its seminar in Israel due to allegedly discriminatory border patrol practices shows no signs of subsiding. The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America and the Zionist Organization of America have filed Freedom of Information Act requests following the state bar’s email informing […]

Ted Cruz loves Orthodox Jews — and they love him back. It’s a dynamic that allows the hard-line conservative presidential contender — a practicing Southern Baptist himself — to tap Orthodox donors more aggressively than any other 2016 candidate, as he zeros in on a small but potentially winnable slice of an otherwise deeply Democratic […]