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JNS – Rev. Sharpton Said He’s Appalled by Palestinian Pay-to-Slay Policy In Meeting With ZOA’s Mort Klein & Said He Will Talk To Hakeem Jeffries & Black Caucus

By Mike Wagenheim (MAY 2, 2023 / JNS) It was an unlikely image, to say the least. Rev. Al Sharpton tweeted a photo of himself last week with Mort Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America. Much of the Jewish community has long considered Sharpton antisemitic for his incendiary rhetoric, accusing him of inciting violence against Jews back […]

Amid Concern, Far-Right MK Says If Made NY Consul She’ll ‘Work With All Jewish Orgs’ | The Times Of Israel – ZOA Quoted

By Luke Tress (APRIL 20, 2023 / TIMES OF ISRAEL) Likud lawmaker May Golan said Thursday she will work with all Jewish organizations as Israel’s consul general in New York, if she takes up an offer to serve in the high-profile diplomatic post. Her comments came after some Jewish leaders and former diplomats expressed concern […]

OP-ED Former Temporary PM Lapid Shouldn’t Be Campaigning Against Israel in the U.S. – ZOA’s Mort Klein’s Israel Hayom Op-Ed

By Morton A. Klein (APRIL 17, 2023 / ISRAEL HAYOM) Former temporary, caretaker, and unelected Prime Minister Yair Lapid did enormous harm to Israel, American Jewry and U.S.-Israel relations during his Passover trip to the United States, by demonizing Israel’s democratically-elected government as “extremist” and by telling American Jews, Jewish leaders and Democratic politicians to […]

ZOA’s Morton Klein Quoted in NY Times on Judicial Reform

Israel’s Judicial Overhaul Plan Ignites Debate Among American Jews (MARCH 8, 2023 / NY TIMES) — An Israeli government effort to weaken the country’s judiciary, which critics call a threat to the nation’s democratic foundations, is drawing unusually pointed protest from American Jewish leaders and organizations, including ones that generally avoid commenting on internal Israeli […]

Why AIPAC’s and Other’s Refusal to Meet Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich is a Harmful Mistake

If AIPAC and the Conference of Presidents and Other Jewish Groups Can Meet With Terrorist Jew-Haters Arafat And Abbas, They Can Surely Meet With Israeli Patriot Minister Of Finance Smotrich Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: The refusal of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and […]

JNS: ZOA Victory Over Anti-Israel Activist Who Withdraws Nomination for Assistant Secretary of State

(January 25, 2023 / JNS) Sarah Margon has withdrawn her nomination for assistant secretary of state for democracy, human Rights and labor, following Republican pushback against her anti-Israel record at Human Rights Watch (HRW) and George Soros’ Open Society Foundations. Among her anti-Israel activities, Margon used her position as head of the HRW in Washington, D.C., to promote […]

ZOA Demands Payment Processor Cut Ties with Palestinian Terror-Linked Group – Washington Examiner

By Gabe Kaminsky (JANUARY 19, 2023 / WASHINGTON EXAMINER) The oldest pro-Israel nonprofit group in the United States is calling on payment processors to cut all ties with an American group closely tied to Palestinian terrorism. The Arizona-based Alliance for Global Justice has faced legal criticism over its fundraiser for Collectif Palestine Vaincra, a French […]