Category ZOA in the news
Amendments Give AIPAC’s ‘Action Agenda’ A Right-Wing Tint

  By Nathan GuttmanTue. Jun 03, 2008   Washington — The annual debate over the Aipac Action Agenda — the pro-Israel powerhouse’s lobbying platform — took a turn to the right this year, with the leader of the Zionist Organization of America introducing 14 amendments that were approved as official Aipac policy. Most of the […]

Five Towns Jewish Times – 15th Annual Israel Day Concert in Central Park, June 1, 2008

Approximately 20,000 men, women, teenagers, and children are expected to attend the annual Dr. Manfred R. Lehmann Memorial Israel Day Concert in Central Park to be held on the 27th of Iyar 5768, the eve of Yom Yerushalayim, at the Summer Stage, entrance on Fifth Avenue and 72nd Street, rain or shine, from 2:30 to […]

CampusWatch – Israel ‘Expects’ Obama to Win

Israel ‘Expects’ Obama to Win [incl. Rashid Khalidi]Looks to create defensible borders before pressured into concessions by Aaron KleinWorldNetDailyMay 26, 2008http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=65365 JERUSALEM – The Israeli government estimates Sen. Barack Obama will win the presidential elections and is rushing to finalize a deal with the Palestinians and possibly Syria before President Bush leaves office, two top […]

Agence France Presse: Abbas Accuses Israel Of Working Against Palestinian State

  Sat Mar 29, 8:35 AM ET Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Saturday accused Israel of splitting the Palestinian territories into isolated cantons to prevent the creation of a state despite its pledge to peace efforts. “Israel is continuing its aggression, its occupation, the construction of settlements and the Judaisation of Jerusalem,” Abbas told the […]

Jerusalem Post: Fight UC Irvine Campus Anti-Semitism

MICHAL LANDO, Jerusalem Post correspondent, NEW YORK , THE JERUSALEM POST Apr. 3, 2008 A group of students at University of California, Irvine – known as one of the more militant campuses in the country when it comes to anti-Israel activity – took the chancellor to task in a news release this week for failing […]

Jerusalem Post: Candidly Speaking: Hillel Goes Post-Modern

  Candidly Speaking: Hillel goes post-modern Isi Leibler , THE JERUSALEM POST Mar. 31, 2008 Post-modernist thinking has made massive inroads at all levels, not excluding the Jewish political world, where references to right and wrong or good and evil have become rare, replaced by a politically correct lexicon. Recent controversies involving the Jewish campus […]

Rochester Democrat & Chronicle: Christians, Jews Unite for Israel

March 31, 2008 Christians, Jews Unite for IsraelJames HawverStaff writer Groups of Christians and Jews came together Sunday night to voice their support for the Israeli state and denounce those against its existence at the second annual Greater Rochester Night to Honor Israel. Much more unites than divides the followers of both faiths, Robert Stearns, […]

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: by L. Brent Bozell III

  By L. Brent Bozell IIISunday, March 30, 2008 Barack Obama came to Philadelphia on March 18 not so much to address his poisonous pastor, Jeremiah Wright, but to talk vaguely of race relations. The news media swooned. No one was giddier than MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, who rhapsodized that Obama’s speech was one of the […]

Jewish News Weekly: How Israel Was Born

Thursday March 27, 2008 In the beginning, the Torah tells us, God created heaven and earth. The oceans were made to teem with life and the land blessed with seed-bearing fruit. God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. This is a clean and efficient way to do business. God, notably, did not […]

Cleveland Jewish News: Betar and ZOA reach out to Sderot

Friday, March 28, 2008 Betar and ZOA reach out to Sderot BY: ARLENE FINE Senior Staff Reporter “All of us at Betar are horrified by the terrorist attack on the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem March 6,” says Betar shaliach Dani Horwitz.“However, the nightmare that occurred at the yeshiva has been going on for eight […]