The Zionist Organization of America sent a letter on Tuesday to two major groups that represent teaching instructors nationwide regarding the seven-year-old case of Rutgers University in New Jersey allowing discrimination against Jewish students. ZOA national president Morton Klein and Susan Tuchman, director of the ZOA’s Center for Law and Justice, wrote to Randi Weingarten, president […]

The Zionist Organization of America has called for academic and activist Marc Lamont Hill to be fired from Temple University in Philadelphia, where he teaches, and CNN, where he is a contributor, for his support of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. “It’s time for CNN and Temple University to fire Marc Lamont Hill, where […]

Jordan’s King Abdullah II, in what has been described as a “sharp tone,” announced this week that he would annul an appendix to the 1994 Israeli/Jordanian peace treaty under which certain parcels of lands in the border regions—the Naharayim (Baqura) area near the Sea of Galilee and Zofar (al Ghamar), some 80 miles north of […]

Why are the city manager and the mayor of Berkeley closing their eyes to powerful evidence of anti-Semitic bigotry and discrimination in city government? Last January, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) wrote to City Manager Dee Williams-Ridley after learning that Councilmember Cheryl Davila had dismissed a qualified Berkeley resident from the city’s Transportation Commission […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) and the University of Pennsylvania’s Middle East Center plan to meet in late 2018 in the wake of the latter hosting an event co-sponsored by Breaking the Silence, an organization of Israeli military veterans dedicated to opposing the Jewish state’s military and civilian presence in Judea and Samaria. Morton […]

Jane Eisner, editor in chief of The Forward, Morton Klein, president of the Zionist organization of America, and Mouin Rabanni, Senior Fellow with the Institute for Palestine Studies, look at how the Trump Administration policy has changed U.S. relations with Israel and Palestinian Authority, and ask — for better or worse? Click here to listen to the broadcast.  

Nikki Haley, who announced today that she will resign from her position as the United States ambassador to the United Nations, was praised by several pro-Israel organizations as a steadfast defender of the Jewish state. Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, called Haley’s resignation “a huge loss … a loss for the […]

The long-standing platitude that peace can only come to Israel and Palestinian Arabs through the creation of a Palestinian state seems alive and well. Thus, at the September session of the United Nations General Assembly currently in progress, French president Emanuel Macron promoted its creation, saying that, “There is no other credible alternative to the […]

A University of Michigan professor is under fire for allegedly denying a student’s request to write a letter of recommendation for a semester-long study-abroad program in Israel, claiming he could not do so because of a departmental decision supporting the BDS movement. Associate professor John Cheney-Lippold belongs to the American Culture department. Subscribe to The […]

The 25th Anniversary of the disastrous Oslo Accords falls between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur – a most fitting time to reflect on its legacy. Prior to Oslo, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was tottering on what could have been its last legs. Its leadership was in exile and it had lost the backing of […]