Category ZOA in the news
ZOA’s Mort Klein Slams Jew-Hating Reps Tlaib and Omar for ‘Anti-Israel’ Remarks

(MAY 7, 2021 / BREITBART) In an exclusive statement made to Breitbart News, the ZOA, the nation’s oldest pro-Israel organization, called out the Democrats for their “absurd” depictions of Israel. “Anti-Israel Jew-hating Reps. Omar, Tlaib and some others, have disgracefully not only supported boycotting America’s closest ally Israel but absurdly called Israel ‘evil,’ ‘racist,’ and […]

OP-ED BY: Jonathan S. Tobin A ‘Big Jewish Tent’ Is Incompatible With Cancel Culture | JNS

(April 28, 2021 / JNS) The question of what particular groups sit around the table at Boston’s Jewish Community Relations Council is not exactly one of the great dilemmas of modern Jewish history. Such organizations tend to take on the characteristics of a private social club. That ensures that the viciousness of the arguments of the participants is […]

ZOA’s Mort Klein Quoted: Investigate Kerry & Fire Him for Betraying Israel to Anti-U.S. Iran | Fox News

Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is accused of telling Iran about Israeli operations and now there are demands for him to be investigated, and resign, over what he allegedly told them.  Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, in a leaked audiotape, claimed that while Kerry served as America’s top diplomat during the Obama administration, […]

OP-ED BY: Morton A. Klein and Susan B. Tuchman, Esq. ZOA’s Tuchman/Klein Wash. Examiner Oped: Many Anti-Israel Falsehoods in Obama’s Memoir Must be Fixed

Adhering to facts and historical truths is vital for any nonfiction writer, especially for high-profile writers with enormous power to shape the public’s thinking. Yet former President Barack Obama’s account of Middle East history in his recently published memoir, A Promised Land, is riddled with factual errors and misleading statements and omits material facts. Because of […]

OP-ED BY: Elizabeth A. Berney, Esq. Jerusalem Post-JCRC/Boston Attacking ZOA for Criticizing BLM’s Israel Hatred is Undeserved Abuse

In the 1930s, the great Zionist Ze’ev Jabotinsky traveled throughout Europe, warning Jews to flee to Israel from the Nazi “volcano that will soon spew out its flames of extermination.” The Jewish Left rewarded Jabotinsky’s efforts to save European Jewry by calling Jabotinsky “a Nazi.” Absurd? Horrible? Of course. Jabotinsky’s death may have been hastened […]

JCRC/Boston: Criticizing Tlaib, Omar, and BLM Makes You a ‘Racist’ & White Supremacist Now – PJ Media

(APRIL 17, 2021 / PJ Media) The Boston Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), a coalition of Jewish organizations, is set to meet on April 27 to decide whether or not to expel the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) over charges that it is “white supremacist.” Of course, everyone to the right of Pol Pot is a […]

NJ Governor Appoints 77 public Members to New Jersey – Israel Commission – Israel National News

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy on Wednesday announced the appointments of 77 public members to the New Jersey – Israel Commission. The appointments to the Commission are being announced on Israel’s 73rd Independence Day, in celebration of the friendship and longstanding relationship between New Jersey and Israel. “I am proud to announce these appointments to the […]

JNS: Biden Nominee Pro-Iran, Hostile-to-Israel Kahl, Opposed by ZOA & CUFI, Moves to Senate Vote

Colin Kahl’s nomination for a top policy position at the Pentagon will proceed to a full Senate vote, where he is expected to be confirmed despite opposition by some pro-Israel groups over his role in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. The nomination moved forward after a split vote by the Senate Armed Service Committee on Wednesday, with […]

OP-ED BY: Joel B. Pollak, Breitbart News ZOA Quoted: Samantha Power Faces Opposition for USAID Post Over Anti-Israel Record, ‘Unmasking’

Former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power, President Joe Biden’s pick to be Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), faces opposition over her anti-Israel record, including fateful lame-duck vote in 2016 to abstain from a UN Security Council Resolution declaring the Israeli presence in Jerusalem illegal, allowing it to pass. Traditionally, the U.S. had […]

OP-ED BY: David Isaac, World Israel News ZOA’s Klein Quoted – World Israel News: Where’s the Outrage? U.S. Jewish Groups Mum on Anti-Israel Pentagon Pick

“Pro-Israel groups launch blitz against Kahl nomination for top Pentagon job,” read the Jewish News Syndicate headline on March 15. The headline isn’t untrue. The problem is that there were just two groups, one of them Christian. How’s that line go again “If I am not for myself…”? There should have been a chorus of protest from […]