Category ZOA in the news
Don’t Endanger Americans by Bringing Syrian Muslims Into the United States

Syrian immigrants pose a grave danger to all Americans — and especially to American Jews and gays.   Top Obama administration officials testified that Syrian refugees cannot be properly vetted. As FBI Director James Comey stated, “We can query our databases until the cows come home, but nothing will show up because we have no record […]

ZOA to JPost: Students Trips Will Continue to Feature Western Wall Visits

Participants on Israel trips organized through Taglit-Birthright will no longer be able to visit the Western Wall on Shabbat due to security concerns connected to the wave of Palestinian terrorist attacks, The Jerusalem Post has learned.   Organizations running trips under the Birthright umbrella have been told they can no longer allow their participants to walk […]

Israel Nat’l News Quotes ZOA Criticizing Obama Illegally Funding Anti-Israel UNESCO

The State Department has asked Congress for nearly a quarter of a billion dollars to fund UNESCO – the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization – even though this is currently against the law. The law states that the U.S. may not pay dues to any UN organization that grants the PLO full membership […]

Algemeiner: ZOA’s Klein Calls Obama Terror Speech “Frightening Disgrace”

President Obama’s address to the nation from the Oval Office on Sunday was a “frightening disgrace,” said the head of a major US Jewish group on Monday. In a harshly worded statement, Morton A. Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), slammed what he called “Obama’s terrorism speech” and listed what he considered […]

Trump, Carson flop with Jewish Republicans Before Pro-Israel Activists

Donald Trump joked about Jewish stereotypes, declined to affirm his support for a united Jerusalem, and told his audience they wouldn’t back him because he did not want their money. Reading from a prepared text, Ben Carson repeatedly pronounced the name of the Palestinian group “Hamas” as if it were a delicious spread made with […]

Open Letter to U.C. Chief about Campus Anti-Israel Actions

J. recently published a “Local Voice” by U.C. Berkeley chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks, responding to a letter from Morton A. Klein, of the Zionist Organization of America, and Susan B. Tuchman, of the ZOA Center for Law and Justice. Dirks’ column and the original letter concerned an Oct. 15 demonstration at U.C. Berkeley organized by Students […]

Why a Double Standard on Terrorism in Israel Compared to France?

To the Editor:   French President Francois Hollande is correct to describe the barbaric attacks in Paris this month as an “act of war”.  WJW identifies the need to confront the evil these atrocities represent (“The real fight against evil”, Editorial, Nov. 19).   The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington and its affiliate, the JCRC, […]

NY Jewish Week: ZOA Gala Featured Amb. Dermer, Danon, Adelson, Voight, Dershowitz, Netanyahu

The enemy is not Islam. Ron Dermer, Israeli Ambassador to the United States, wants to be clear that we recognize the enemy as “militant Islam.” The keynote speaker at the Louis Brandeis award dinner of the Zionist Organization of America on Nov. 22 at the Grand Hyatt in Manhattan, Dermer warned that Muslim terrorist groups […]

Amb. Dermer at ZOA Dinner: Islamic Terror Against World and Israel is Same

The lineup of speakers at the Zionist Organization of America’s annual Louis D. Brandeis Awards dinner at the Grand Hyatt in NY Sunday evening, turned out to serve as the perfect venue for venting about Israel’s standing in the world and the offering of suggestions about the U.S. conducting the war on terror in the […]

JPost: At ZOA Dinner – “Pollard Lost Job Due to Parole Conditions,” Says His Lawyer

An employer who had intended to give a salaried position to Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard retracted the offer Monday, because the conditions of his parole would have prevented him from doing his job.  Pollard received an offer to become a research analyst in the finance department of a respected investment firm. But his parole conditions require him […]