ISRAEL – During the final week of February, the Zionist Organization of America held its annual Mission to Israel, which is more security focused than others. ZOA National President Mort Klein opened the inaugural dinner noting the ZOA’s success in getting Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to agree to […]

(March 23, 2020 / JNS) A record-setting 123,000 American Jews voted in the elections for the 38th World Zionist Congress, setting the stage for a potential shift in communal priorities as right-wing and Orthodox groups made surprising gains from the last election five years ago. Of the top three slates, two represent Orthodox Judaism. The other represents the […]

TEL AVIV – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has called on Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to fire newly-appointed senior advisor, Phillip Agnew, for what ZOA calls “maniacal, Jew-hating, Israel-bashing” statements. Agnew has in the past described Zionism as “racist and exploitative.” “The Zionist Organization of America strongly urges presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders to […]

Case in point: the release, without bail, of Tiffany Harris — twice in three days — after Harris’s initial arrest for an alleged unprovoked attack on a group of Jewish women in December. Her case exemplifies the flaws with New York’s Bail Elimination Act (NY Criminal Procedure Law § 510.10 et seq.), which went into effect […]

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein, and the first African American U.S. State Department Director of the Office of Policy Planning, Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and Taube Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University Dr. Kiron Skinner, are joining forces to call on all faith, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, community, academic, media and […]

A complaint filed by the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) to the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) concerning campus antisemitism at Duke University has been resolved. The university signed an agreement earlier this month to tackle antisemitism on campus, following an alleged anti-Israel conference in March that was co-sponsored together with the University […]

WASHINGTON — An executive order signed Wednesday that extends civil rights protection to Jews is likely to strengthen the hand of President Trump’s Education Department, where the department’s civil rights chief has been investigating some of the nation’s most elite universities for anti-Jewish bias. Mr. Trump, at a Hanukkah celebration at the White House, opened […]

The Zionist Organization of America’s national president Morton A. Klein savaged German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s administration on Monday for failing to confront the Iranian regime’s antisemitism. “It seems that, come what may, foreign leaders like Chancellor Merkel this past week, would rather say or do anything else other than state and condemn the obvious fact […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) opposes the World Jewish Congress (WJC)’s decision to honor German Chancellor Angela Merkel with the Herzl Award. The ZOA firmly believes that a foreign leader who continues to support the disastrously flawed 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which will enable the Iranian regime in time to become a nuclear weapons […]

Jewish and pro-Israel groups reacted unfavorably to U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision on Sunday evening to withdraw U.S. forces from northeast Syria, ahead of an expected invasion by Turkey against Kurdish forces. The White House announced the withdrawal on Sunday, following a call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, eliciting […]