Category ZOA in the news
ZOA’s Susan Tuchman Quoted on Huge Increase in Anti-Israel Activity on Campuses

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus Published: October 28th, 2014   The Anti-Defamation League issued an important report on Monday, Oct. 27, finding a dramatic increase in anti-Israel activity, compared to last year. The ADL attributes the increase to the aftermath of the 50-day Gaza war this past summer. According to the ADL, this fall semester there have already been 75 […]

Jerusalem Post’s Glick Praises ZOA’s Campaign Against Klinghoffer Opera

It’s time to beat the Jew-haters: How to do it By Caroline B. Glick Published Oct. 24, 2014 The decision by the most prestigious opera house in America to produce an opera that mainstreams Jew-hatred and anti-Jewish terrorism is a great victory for elitist anti-Semitism. In the world of elite anti-Semitism, Jews are told that […]

ZOA Cited by Florida Paper as Great Resource for Protecting Jewish Students on Campus

Anti-Semitism rears ugly head on UCF, Emory campuses Central Florida Future 5:06 p.m. EDT October 22, 2014 What does UCF have in common with Emory University and University of Oregon? They have all recently experienced anti-Semitism. In April at UCF, Michelle Feldman, a female Jewish student, found swastikas carved into the walls of her apartment […]

ZOA Letter in Jerusalem Post Criticizing Land-for-Peace Rationale

Sir, – The vote in the British parliament (“PA calls on UK gov’t to follow parliament’s lead and recognize Palestinian state,” October 15) is distressing but hardly surprising. The upsurge of international opprobrium directed at Israel is a product of the Oslo Accords. Once the idea was conceded that creating peace was chiefly a matter […]

France News Quotes ZOA about “Klinghoffer” – An Operatic Kristallnacht

Agence France-Presse October 21, 2014 6:00am Met defies protests to stage ‘Klinghoffer’ opera  Defying picketers and audience disruptions, New York’s Metropolitan Opera has opened “The Death of Klinghoffer,” which explores the psyche of Palestinian hijackers who killed a wheelchair-bound US Jew. Leading US composer John Adams operatized the 1985 seizure of the Achille Lauro cruise-liner […]

NY Times Quotes ZOA’s Mort Klein about Anti-Israel, Anti-Semitic “Klinghoffer” Opera

De Blasio and Giuliani Speak Out on Met’s ‘Klinghoffer’ as Protests Loom OCT. 20, 2014 As the Metropolitan Opera prepared to give its first performance of John Adams’s 1991 opera “The Death of Klinghoffer” on Monday night, the police got ready for a protest outside the opera house, security was heightened inside, and the debate […]

ZOA’s Klein Quoted in UK’s Guardian Calling “Klinghoffer” Opera an “Operatic Kristallnacht”

Published Monday, October 20,  2014 theguardian.com   Met Opera rejects antisemitism claims rising from Klinghoffer protests Demonstrators including Rudy Giuliani to gather outside Met The Death of Klinghoffer depicts murder of Jewish man in 1985 In the face of protests by politicians and Jewish organisations who have described it as “an operatic Kristallnacht”, The Death […]

Op-Ed by NJ ZOA Director in Jewish Standard

Published: 10 October 2014 As the director of a proudly Zionist organization, it isn’t often I can say that I agree with the Palestinian Authority’s anti-Semitic, terrorism-sponsoring, Holocaust-denying, opposition-squashing dictator Mahmoud Abbas. Indeed, his “genocide speech,” as Abbas’s UN speech on erev Rosh Hashanah has come to be known in Israel, was replete with stunning fabrications and […]

Arutz Sheva Cites ZOA as Associate Producer of New Pro-Israel Film Showing in NYC Oct. 27

By: Prof. Phyllis Chesler Published: Monday, October 13, 2014 10:11 AM Gloria Z. Greenfield’s third film, Body and Soul: The State of the Jewish Nation, is a cinematic and educational triumph. In only 65 minutes, the viewer comes to understand who the Jews are to the land of Israel and what the land of Israel is to […]

U.C. Takes Stand Against BDS Advocacy in Classroom

Published by J.Weekly Thursday, October 9, 2014 The Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Zionist Organization of America and 10 other Jewish advocacy groups are applauding a letter from a high-ranking University of California official that they say protects the well-being of Jewish students. The letter to U.C. chancellors from provost Aimée Dorr, executive vice president for academic […]