Category ZOA in the news
Jewish Voice Cover Story on ZOA Dinner

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) held its annual gala at the Hyatt Hotel on Sunday November 12, 2017 with a VIP cocktail reception and press conference starting at 4:30 PM. Mort Klein, President of ZOA, fielded questions from the New York Times and CBS News with one outlet questioning whether he was ambivalent about […]

OP-ED BY: Morton A. Klein Mort Klein: Dividing Jerusalem Would Be a Security Nightmare for Israel

In recent Congressional hearings on the question of transferring the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Israel’s capital, Jerusalem, some, such as former U.S. ambassador to Israel under the Obama Administration, Dan Shapiro, have argued that dividing Jerusalem between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs in the context of a peace agreement would provide […]

ZOA’s Klein on Jewish Broadcasting TV About Jerusalem 

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Haaretz: ZOA’s Klein, Dore Gold, Bolton Urge U.S. Move Embassy at Cong. Hearing

Dore Gold, the former director general of the Foreign Ministry, said on Wednesday that he was certain that U.S. President Donald Trump intends to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.”President Donald Trump has made a commitment in that regard and I believe he will stand by what he has said,” […]

OP-ED BY: Morton A. Klein ZOA’s Mort Klein in Breitbart: Opposing Israel-Basher David Myers Appt. to Head Ctr for Jewish History.

  “Fake history” and “big lies” are key weapons used to attack and discredit America’s close ally Israel and to incite hatred and violence against Jews throughout the world. The relentless assault on the truth by the anti-Israel far left is downright dangerous – especially when it comes from individuals ostensibly within the Jewish community. […]

OP-ED BY: Susan B. Tuchman, Esq. and David Kadosh ZOA Op-Ed: Fighting Anti-Semitism in California Schools

For years, Jewish college students across the country have been harassed and intimidated.  Frighteningly, this ugly problem is seeping into our high schools and even our middle and elementary schools. In Alameda, California, middle and elementary schools have been defaced with swastikas and a Jewish elementary school student reportedly received a death threat.  Under pressure […]

Haaretz: ZOA Refuses Meeting with Pro-Hamas Qatar Emir

Qatar is trying to arrange meetings between its senior leadership and the heads of major Jewish American organizations during next week’s UN General Assembly. The natural gas-rich country has reached out to the heads of a number of prominent Jewish groups and asked if they would meet with the emir and crown prince while they […]

Steve Bannon Strongly Supports Israel and Jews – ZOA Klein’s Forward Article

I am a child of Holocaust survivors, born in a displaced persons camp in Germany, and lost most of my aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents to the evil horror of the Nazis. I’ve spent decades fighting against anti-Semites and Israel-haters of every stripe, from Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan to Ku Klux Klan Grand […]

OP-ED Exclusive – ZOA’s Mort Klein: Jerusalem Was Never Holy to Muslims

It’s time to end the propaganda myth that Jerusalem is holy to Muslims. Jerusalem was the capital of the Jewish nation under King David and other Jewish kings for hundreds of years. The U.S. Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 stated: “In 1996, the State of Israel will celebrate the 3,000th anniversary of the Jewish presence […]