Southern California InFocusThe largest Muslim newspaper in California February 2008Letters To The Editor The legal action the Zionist Organization of America brought on behalf of Jewish students at UC Irvine never challenged the MSU’s right to express opposition to the policies of Israel (Probe Clears Muslim Group and UCI of Anti-Semitism, Jan. 8, 2008). Our […]

Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life rejected a call to disinvite two controversial speakers from its upcoming summit. In a letter responding to criticism from the Zionist Organization of America, Hillel Executive Director Wayne Firesetone defended the decision to invite University of Pennsylvania President Amy Guttman and University of California, Irvine Chancellor Michael Drake […]

As published in The Jewish Week (New York) Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf and Steve Masters claim that “every poll conducted has shown that an overwhelming majority of American Jews supports a U.S.-brokered peace initiative between Israel and the Palestinians” (“Let Us Not Remain The Jews Of Silence,” Jan. 11). They evidently did not consult the […]

ZOA Part of Cover Story Article in LA Jewish Journal By Morton A. Klein Do Jews outside Israel have the right to criticize Israeli policies relating to defense and security matters or eternal issues, like concessions on Jerusalem? Some argue that while Diaspora Jews may debate a range of Israeli policies, national security and defense […]

Lynn B. EdelmanJewish Federation Feature John Bolton is seemingly unafraid of controversy. An outspoken conservative Republican and arguably the most vehement critic of the United Nations since the days of the late former ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, he was appointed by President Bush as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in August 2005 in a recess […]

News and Opinion If I Forget Thee… Should Jerusalem be on the table? — J. J. Goldberg It always happens when Israel approaches a peace agreement with the Palestinians: Noisy voices of protest arise within the American Jewish community, arguing that Israel misjudges the Palestinians, doesn’t understand the terrain, doesn’t understand the Middle East as […]

By Gamaliel Isaac By comparing Mahmoud Abbas to Reverend Martin Luther King, Condoleezza Rice has managed to sully the heritage of Jews and Blacks at the same time. Last October, in Jerusalem, Rice compared the struggle of the Palestinians to that of the African-Americans for civil rights. She also compared Mahmoud Abbas to Reverend Martin […]

By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVEUPI Editor at Large WASHINGTON, 18 (UPI) — President Bush’s Air Force One was still airborne on its way back from a six-country, eight-day tour of Middle Eastern capitals when agreements and understandings began to unravel. Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah was noncommittal on pumping more crude oil. With oil near $100 per […]

By Nathan Guttman Washington – The detention of three right-wing activists during President Bush’s visit to Israel has sparked claims that Israeli police are intentionally targeting groups and individuals who oppose the push of Ehud Olmert’s government for a two-state solution. The three activists — from the Israel office of the Zionist Organization of America […]

Daily Analysis by Michael Moran President George W. Bush’s eight-day trip through the Middle East lived up to its billing as a momentum-building exercise. The stated goal was “advancing the Israeli-Palestinian peace process,” as National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley put it January 9 en route to Israel. The trip’s other main aim, drumming up opposition […]