Category ZOA in the news
Newsmax Lists ZOA as a Top Charity to Help Israel in Need

OCTOBER 16, 2023 / NEWSMAX Dear Newsmax Reader: After the devastating attacks on Israeli citizens by Hamas, Americans are standing by Israel. Both our nations were founded on shared values, a shared religious heritage and a shared acceptance of democracy as the best form of government. Right now several organizations have been giving assistance, including […]

Black Lives Matter Group Throws Support Behind Hamas Attacks, Calls Murder of Israelis ‘Self-Defense’

Three years ago, ZOA was the only major Jewish group to condemn BLM antisemitism/Israel-hatred and Reform, Conservative, others condemned ZOA/Mort Klein for that. By Andrew Kerr (OCTOBER 10, 2023 / FREEBEACON) Black Lives Matter Grassroots threw its support behind Hamas in a statement Monday evening, calling the terrorist group’s indiscriminate murder of Israeli citizens over […]

OP-ED UPenn Insults Jews During High Holy Days, With Jew-Hating, Israel-Bashing Event – American Thinker by ZOA Phila. Chapter Pres. Lynn Lechter, Esq.

By Lynne Lechter (SEPTEMBER 18, 2023 / AMERICAN THINKINER) Religious and lots of less observant Jews worldwide are celebrating what are known as the High Holy Days or the Days of Awe — starting with the celebratory Rosh Hashanah, the New Year, and ending with a 25-hour fast on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement […]

ZOA Quoted in Phila. Jewish Exponent on U Of P Jew-Hating, Israel-Bashing Conference

By Jarrad Saffren (SEPTEMBER 12, 2023 / PHILADELPHIA JEWISH EXPONENT) The Palestine Writes Festival is “the only North American literature festival dedicated to celebrating and promoting cultural productions of Palestinian writers and artists,” according to palestinewrites.org. And a quick perusal of the speaker list will show that most of these writers and artists are dedicated […]

NY Sun Quotes ZOA’s Mort Klein Criticizing Israel’s Opposition Leader, Yair Lapid’s Meeting with Top Biden Aides

It’s an ‘insult to the elected government of Israel,’ the president of the Zionist Organization of America, Morton Klein, tells the Sun. By Anthony Grant (SEPTEMBER 5, 2023 / THE NEW YORK SUN) Sometimes, apparently, Skype just won’t do. Israel’s opposition leader, 59-year-old former journalist Yair Lapid, flew to Washington Monday for a fast-paced series […]

OP-ED Biden Giving Iran $6 Billion Will Only Lead to More Terrorism: ZOA’s Mort Klein’s Israel Hayom Op-ed

No one believes for a moment that Iran’s mullahs will use billions of dollars of new wealth for humanitarian purposes. By Morton A. Klein, ZOA National President (AUGUST 15, 2023 / ISRAEL HAYOM) The Zionist Organization of America strongly criticizes the Biden administration’s giving billions of dollars to the terrorist Islamic Republic of Iran. In […]