Morton A. Klein released the following statement:  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) strongly opposes bringing more Syrian Muslim “refugees” into the United States.   Syrian immigrants pose a grave danger to all Americans – and an even greater danger to American Jews, for a host of reasons.  Obama’ own FBI director and numerous other top […]

Morton A. Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) issued the following statement: President Obama’s terrorism speech was a frightening disgrace. Not only was there no new policy, but it was filled with falsehoods about the daily intelligence briefings. It misled us on his exaggerated bombing raids, intimidated Americans into silence of suspicious radical […]

Morton Klein, President of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), released the following statement:  ZOA is pleased to report that after ZOA’s complaint about Donald Trump’s previous false assertions implying that Israel had not made “sacrifices” (concessions) to the Palestinians Arabs, Mr. Trump has now firmly, publicly and promptly acknowledged Israel’s extraordinary “unthinkable” sacrifices.   Mr. Trump made this […]

ZOA president Morton A. Klein released the following statement: The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is concerned that at the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) candidates’ forum yesterday, when asked if he acknowledged Jerusalem as the undivided Capital of Israel, Donald Trump stated that he will wait until after his upcoming visit with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin […]

Zionist Organization of America president Morton A. Klein released the following statement: The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is alarmed, outraged and disappointed by presidential candidate Donald Trump’s factually inaccurate and ludicrous claim that a successful peace deal between Israel and the Palestinian Arab dictators  “has to do with Israel and whether or not Israel’s willing […]

A poll of 1363 Palestinian Arabs (including 863 living in Judea and Samaria and 500 living in Gaza), conducted by An-Najah National University’s Center for Polls and Survey Studies, from November 20 to 22, 2015, reveals that Palestinian Arabs overwhelmingly reject a Palestinian state that would live in peace with Israel as a final resolution; […]

Morton A. Klein, president, Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), issued the following statement:U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry issued appalling and woefully inadequate remarks on the Secretary’s meetings last week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and PLO Chairman / Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas.  Secretary Kerry again failed to condemn or even acknowledge […]

Over 1,100 people attended the Zionist Organization of America’s (ZOA) 117th Louis D. Brandeis Award Dinner on Sunday, November 22 at New York City’s elegant Grand Hyatt Hotel. Major ZOA donors provided tables for 219 student activists from various universities who attended. Israeli Ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Ron Dermer; newly-appointed Israeli Ambassador to […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) today welcomed the release of Jonathan Pollard.Mr. Pollard is the only American citizen sentenced to life in prison for passing classified information to a US ally – in this case Israel. He has been behind bars since his arrest in 1985. After finally giving him official recognition as an […]

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has pointed to Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ recent open admission that he turned down then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s 2008 peace offer and made no counter-offer. Abbas had never publicly admitted that he turned down Mr. Olmert’s offer, which would have provided for an independent Palestinian state […]