Throughout the last year and a half of a heated presidential campaign in the United States, American Jewish organizations, like much of the general US population, have been divided when it came to their views of the candidates, and particularly of President-elect Donald Trump. Most recently, Jewish organizations clashed over the appointment of former Breitbart […]

‘Bannon was never invited to address the ZOA’ According to Peter Beinart, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), which I head, is a mostly unknown, “heavily” Orthodox organization that supports President-elect Trump’s “takeover” of the GOP, invited Trump strategist Steve Bannon to address our recent Annual Dinner and “peddles” “anti-Muslim bigotry” (‘Trump Era Heralds Final […]

Throughout the 2,000 years of Jews living in the Diaspora, there has been no precedent for the behavior of major liberal mainstream sectors of the American Jewish community. They are undermining themselves and provoking massive waves of resentment from Americans, many of whom were favorably disposed toward them. The United States has been the home […]

  Who is behind the bus ads in Rome for a ‘trip to Palestine?’ Is the Vatican’s travel agency involved in the “Palestine trip” bus ads whose itinerary includes Jerusalem sites holy to Christians? On November 23rd, I exposed the story of a bus in Rome, used by the Vatican travel agency to sponsor a […]

When the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn was founded in 1973, it had a worthy mission: to make healthy and affordable food available to everyone who wanted it. But recently, the Coop appears to have lost its way. In April, it suspended four loyal, long-time members for a whole year – three of them […]

Don’t blame candidates for their supporters. The incoming Trump Administration has publicly committed itself to a policy of strong support for Israel, both diplomatically and militarily, including over the existential threat posed by a future Iranian nuclear weapons capacity –– but apparently, for Bradley Burston, it is Charles Lindbergh and xenophobic American isolationism all over […]

Hundreds of people gathered at United Nations headquarters on Wednesday night to attend a forum held by the Israeli Mission to the UN to discuss the legal fight against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. “We are here to send a simple message to the BDS movement: To the bullies who harass students on campus, […]

Morton Klein, ZOA National President on Fox News this morning, on anti-Semitism and President-elect Trump’s pick for Chief Strategist, Stephen Bannon.  CLICK TO WATCH  

Steve Bannon is a staunch supporter of the Jewish state who is committed to fighting anti-Semitism, asserted Aaron Klein, Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief. Klein was reacting to the baseless smears of anti-Semitism against Bannon, Breitbart’s former executive chairman who was named by President-elect Donald Trump earlier this week as the chief strategist of the new White […]

The frantic and fearful response by prominent Jewish leaders to Donald Trump’s election and to his appointment of Steve Bannon as senior advisor is unreasonable, irresponsible, and is damaging to our community.

   As Alan Dershowitz and the Zionist Organization of America explain, there is no reason whatsoever to think Steve Bannon is an anti-Semite. Quite […]