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OP-ED BY: Morton A. Klein, Susan B. Tuchman, Esq., and David Schoen, Esq. JNS: ZOA Op-Ed – U.S. Government Supports the Terrorists, and Not the Victims, in Lawsuit

Victims of international terrorism suffered a terrible blow this week when the United States Supreme Court declined to hear Sokolow v. Palestine Liberation Organization, a case brought by American citizens killed or injured in terrorist attacks committed in the early 2000s in Israel by the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority. It was the last […]

Breitbart: Why is ZOA Only Group Outraged/Demanding Firing Geraldo Rivera for Supporting Murder of Israeli Jews?

For the past week, left-wing gun control activists, egged on by Parkland, Florida, school shooting survivor David Hogg, have urged companies to stop advertising on Laura Ingraham’s show, The Ingraham Angle, on Fox News. Ingraham’s “crime” was to accuse Hogg of whining about not being accepted into four University of California schools. But another Fox News […]

ZOA Head in JPost: Arab Nazi-Like Hamas Responsible for Violence On Gaza Border

“The Nazi-like terror group Hamas” is responsible for the violence that left 17 dead and hundreds more injured after violent clashes erupted on the Gaza border on Friday, head of the Zionist Organization of America Mort Klein told The Jerusalem Post. “What I am painfully and frightfully reminded of by Israel’s necessary defensive actions, is that the […]

JTA: ZOA Blasts Supreme Court’s Siding with PLO Terrorists Not US Victims

The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a setback to victims of terrorism seeking the right to sue the Palestine Liberation Organization. The court declined Monday to consider an appeal of a decision in a case known as Sokolow v. Palestine Liberation Organization. The plaintiffs won $656 million in a 2015 federal jury verdict, but it was […]

ZOA’s Daube Pioneers Program to Teach Israel’s Law Students About Judea/Samaria Rights

Arutz Sheva spoke with Legal Grounds (Basis Huki) Co-Chair Jeff Daube about the organization’s new program offering free legal courses to young lawyers. Legal Grounds is an organization dedicated to countering the propaganda claiming that Israel has no legal right to Judea and Samaria, as well as the fact that most lawyers are not well-versed enough […]

ZOA Quoted as Leading Fight to Oust McMaster

President Trump’s choice of a new national security adviser has quickly become as polarizing as many of the other dramatic choices he’s made in the roller-coaster first stage of his Oval Office tenure, with conservative forces cheering the pick of the hawkish John Bolton as a muscular demonstration of U.S. support for Israel and those […]

JNS Quotes ZOA: Weakened Taylor Force Act Stops Only 1/3 of PA Aid

Amid never-ending speculation over the release of President Donald Trump’s much anticipated Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, a major piece of legislation making its way through Congress may have a profound impact on the already strained ties between the United States and the Palestinians. This legislation, dubbed the Taylor Force Act—named for a 28-year-old former U.S. serviceman […]

ZOA’s Klein Young Israel Dinner Speech/ “Jerusalem is Not Holy to Muslims”

Zionist Organization of America President Morton Klein spoke on Thursday night at the National Council of Young Israel’s annual dinner, debunking the myth that Jerusalem is holy to Muslims. “Jerusalem was the capital of Israel, under King David, 3,000 years ago,” Klein said. “It was never, ever, the capital of any other nation except Israel. […]

OP-ED BY: Mark Levenson JNS Op-Ed: Shmuley Boteach Honors Qatar-Praising Treasury Sec’y – Yet Condemns Jews Who Made Demands of Qatar

Shmuley Boteach has written numerous recent articles, tweets and ads condemning and calling out top pro-Israel Jewish and Zionist leaders for meeting Qatari officials, even though they were simply making demands on Qatar to change its policies towards Israel and the Jewish people. Yet last week, in contradiction of this “principled” stance, he honored and gave […]

OP-ED BY: Morton A. Klein Mort Klein Op-Ed in Breitbart: AIPAC Loses Credibility by Perpetuating ‘Two-State Solution’ Myth

When America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) CEO Howard Kohr, addressing AIPAC’s Policy Conference this past week, called for establishing a Palestinian Arab state, he inadvertently exposed a decades-old myth: that AIPAC only supports all policies of the Israeli government. Kohr unequivocally stated: “We must all work toward that future: two states for two peoples … One Jewish with secure and […]