Category ZOA in the news
Council on Foreign Relations: Bush’s Candor Marks Mideast Trip

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 […]

Israel Insider – Israel’s Daily Newsmagazine: Condemnation of police for detaining peaceful protesters during Bush visit

Suppression of Dissent By Israel Insider staff The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) slammed the detention by Israeli police of its Director in Israel, and two activists, Susie Dym and Yehudit Dassberg (who lost a daughter and son-in-law in an attack by Arab terrorists), on the evening of January 9th in front of the Dan […]

JTA: Alliance formed to keep Jerusalem unified

An Israeli group and U.S. Jewish group are banding together to promote a united Jerusalem. The Coordinating Council on Jerusalem, founded last October by members of several U.S. Jewish groups as a response to renewed discussion of dividing Jerusalem in the lead-up to the Annapolis peace conference, has formed an alliance with the Israeli group […]

Mid East Web: The War of the Zionist Right Against Sari Nusseibeh

As noted by Engage, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has called for a boycott of Al Quds University in East Jerusalem in response to alleged comments made recently by Sari Nusseibeh, the university’s President and translated by MEMRI. In a television panel with Ahmed Tibi, Nusseibeh said: The Israelis now living in the territories […]

Israel National News: ZOA Criticizes US on Jewish Civil Rights

(IsraelNN.com) The Zionist Organization of America has condemned the United States government’s Office for Civil Rights for failing to protect Jewish students at University of California, Irvine. The Office for Civil Rights recently decided that a series of Muslim speeches and rallies on the campus were anti-Israel, not anti-Semitic, and therefore did not target Jewish […]

The Nation: ‘Bad for the Jews’

This article can be found on the web at http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080107/alterman the liberal media by Eric AltermanJanuary 7, 2008 issue Today’s topic is the paradox—or one of them, anyway—of American Jewish political behavior. No, it’s not that hoary old cliché that they “earn like Episcopalians but vote like Puerto Ricans.” Rather, it’s that they think like […]

Haaretz and The Associated Press: American Zionist group slams U.S. gov’t on campus anti-Semitism

The Zionist Organization of America condemned the U.S. government’s Office for Civil Rights on Wednesday for failing to protect Jewish students it says have been subject to a series of anti-Semitic provocations on the campus of the University of California, Irvine. The ZOA alleged that Muslim students on campus have given anti-Semitic speeches, distributed Judeophobic […]

ZOA’s Morton A. Klein answers the question: How can you claim to be the leader of Zionist Americans when your beliefs are so much to the right of the Jewish community?

Below is the third in a series question posed by Shmuel Rosner of Haaretz, one of Israel’s leading newspapers, to Morton A. Klein, President of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), and Mr. Klein’s answer. These are part of a week-long series of questions and answers, between that newspaper and Morton Klein, which may be […]

Letter: Moment: Is He or Isn’t He?

January / February Edition In “The Playwright’s Politics,” Tony Kushner says that I and others who have described him as hostile to Israel “work very hard, by taking things out of context, to make you sound nuts.” Really? Kushner has called Israel’s establishment a “mistake” (Haaretz, April 7, 2004) and stated plainly, “I’ve never been […]

ZOA’s Morton A. Klein answers the question: What is your vision for Israel and the Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza?

The following is the text of a question posed by Shmuel Rosner of Haaretz, one of Israel’s leading newspapers, to Morton A. Klein, President of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), and Mr. Klein’s answers. These are part of a week-long series of questions and answers between that newspaper and Morton Klein. Future Q&A’s may […]