Category ZOA in the news
ZOA’s Morton A. Klein: NY’s “Bail Reform” Makes Jews & Everyone Else Unsafe – Breitbart

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 […]

ZOA Fmr. Top State Dep’t Official Dr. Kiron Skinner, ZOA Pres. Morton A. Klein Call on All Faith, Community, Academic, Media & Political Leaders to Speak Out Against Anti-Jewish Hatred and Violence

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 […]

JPost: ZOA Complaint Under Title VI Causes Duke Univ. to Fight Antisemitism On Campus

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. Following the ZOA’s complaint, the OCR opened an investigation to determine whether a hostile environment existed in connection with the conference and if so, whether UNC […]

Wider Definition of Judaism Is Likely to Aid Crackdown on Colleges

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 […]

ZOA SLAMS MERKEL FOR “ABSURDLY CLAIMING IRAN IS ONLY ANTI-ISRAEL”

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 […]

ZOA Opposes World Jewish Congress Honoring Germany’s Merkel

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 […]

ZOA Expresses Concern About Trump Removing Troops from Syria

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 […]

Caroline Glick cites ZOA: “American Jewry’s Days of Reckoning”

On September 29, President Donald Trump set out his nationalist political philosophy in his address before the UN General Assembly. Arguing that the nation-state is the best guarantor of human freedom and liberty, Trump set up a contrast between “patriots” and “globalists.” “The future does not belong to globalists,” he said. “The future belongs to […]

JNS: Jewish and pro-Israel groups, leaders react to news of Greenblatt resignation

Jewish and pro-Israel community leaders and groups reacted to the White House announcement on Thursday that U.S. Middle East special envoy Jason Greenblatt plans to resign within the coming weeks. “Mr. Greenblatt has played a pivotal role over the last two years in strengthening the U.S. Israel relationship and in working on ways to seek […]

EXCLUSIVE: Top Pro-Israel Organization Slams Linda Sarsour For Smearing ‘Israel And The Jewish People’

Zionist Organization of America President Morton Klein slammed Linda Sarsour over her smearing of pro-Israel Americans, in a statement provided Tuesday exclusively to The Daily Caller. “Sarsour will make up any story, any lie, to blame, demonize and smear (BDS tactics) Israel and the Jewish people,” Klein told TheDC. “Sarsour is the one who stands […]