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ZOA Admits Democrats Forced "Un-inviting" Palin From Iran Rally At Least someone has the GUTs to tell the truth, Morton A. Klein,president of the Zionist Organization of America. Is telling the world that it WAS the Democratic Party that forced Monday's Iran rally organizers to "Un-invite" Governor Palin from Monday's rally. Read the Press release below: H/T Pamela of Atlas Shrugs ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ON PALIN DISINVITE UPDATED:ISRAEL PROJECT WITHDRAWS SUPPORT UPDATE: The Israel Project has removed its support for the Rally which disinvited Palin. The only rally in NY they are participating in is the one on the...

ZOA has issued this statement - Baruch Hashem! The following statement is from Morton A. Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America. "The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) strongly opposes the disinvitation of Vice-Presidential candidate Governor Sarah Palin to be one of many speakers at a "stop Iran from gaining nuclear weapons rally." This rally will also protest the presence of Iran's president Ahmadinejad at the United Nations on Monday, September 22. This is an anti-Iran rally, not a partisan political rally, as Democratic Senator Hilary Clinton was invited as was vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden and later Democratic...

Well, now, the “experts” may change their mind and take another look at West(Lt. Col. Allen West) and Florida—22. The best reason for this “second look” is offered by Klein himself. Last Thursday (July 24th), the president of the Zionist Organization of America, one of America’s the most respected of Jewish-American organizations, called ZOA South Florida organization chairman Alan Bergstein and gave him an ultimatum: stop his volunteer work for West or resign from his ZOA post. According to the West campaign, “it was made clear to Bergstein that Ron Klein was necessary to pass congressional legislation important to ZOA...

The Zionist Organization of America has “called upon Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) to quit his racist, anti-American, anti-Israel church and repudiate his pastor, Jeremiah Wright.” Noting that the National Jewish Democratic Council condemned Mitt Romney for appearing at the museum of a long-dead EX-antisemite, we are confident that NJDC will support ZOA’s request. Henry Ford retracted and repudiated The International Jew, but Jeremiah Wright has never retracted, repudiated, or apologized for his own hate speech, his publication of a manifesto from a genuine Hamas terrorist, or his placement of quote marks around “state” of Israel, as if...

22:34 PM 25 Av 5767, August 9, '07 ZOA Criticizes Hevron Expulsion (IsraelNN.com) The Zionist Organization of America has issued a statement criticizing the expulsion of two Jewish families from their homes in Hevron earlier in the week. ZOA President Morton Klein explained that the expulsion was a misuse of IDF resources, and sent the mistaken message that Jews do not belong in Hevron. Klein pointed out that while the IDF used 3,000 soldiers to expel two families from their homes, rockets were falling on Sderot. Klein said that the ZOA does not like to publicly disagree with the Israeli...

Hillel Fendel Up to a billion dollars in support for various Jewish and Zionist organizations and causes are at stake in the election now underway in the U.S. for the World Zionist Congress. The vote-by-mail election in the United States will choose the 145 American delegates to the all-important Congress, which will be held in Jerusalem in June 2006. The American delegation is the largest from outside of Israel, accounting for 30% of the entire Congress and therefore having a major impact on setting policy. According to the constitution of the World Zionist Organization, delegations from all countries except Israel...

ZOA Deeply Concerned: Bush Omitted Israel From List of Countries Hit by Islamist Terrorists December 1, 2005 Contact Morton A. Klein at:www.zoa.org Attn: NEWS EDITOR Bush mentioned Jordan, S Arabia, Iraq as victims - not Israel ZOA DEEPLY CONCERNED: PRESIDENT BUSH OMITTED ISRAEL FROM LIST OF COUNTRIES HIT BY ISLAMIST TERRORISTS New York - The ZOA has expressed deep concern that President George W. Bush, in a major speech in Annapolis yesterday, omitted any mention of the Jewish state of Israel when referring to countries that have been victim of Islamist terrorism. Israel is of course Islamist terrorism's most consistent...

NEW YORK- In the latest of a long series of bizarre conspiracy theories, Yasir Arafat has accused Israel of using a certain type of bullet to cause cancer among Arabs. Speaking to reporters on July 20, 2004, Arafat falsely alleged that Israel uses depleted- uranium bullets, as part of its plot to "cause cancer that is like Hiroshima and Nagasaki." Arafat told reporters to visit Palestinian Arab hospitals to confirm his claim, but cancer specialists at hospitals in Ramallah and Bethlehem said that there has been no increase in the cancer rate. Arafat also brandished a report that he said...

ZOA Praises Bush For Imposing Sanctions On Terrorist Syrian Regime, Urges Same For Arafat's Terrorist Regime NEW YORK - The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) strongly supports President Bush's imposition of initial sanctions on the terrorist Syrian regime, as required by the Syria Accountability Act. The ZOA worked extensively on behalf of the Syria Accountability Act since the bill's conception. ZOA representatives undertook an intensive and prolonged effort to educate Members of Congress about the importance of the legislation. The lead sponsors were U.S. Representatives Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL). The ZOA is urging the Bush administration to...

ZOA TO BUSH: THE QUARTET IS SEVERELY BIASED AGAINST ISRAEL AND SHOULD BE DISBANDED NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging the Bush administration to disband the Quartet in response to the Quartet members' complete embrace of Arab demands against Israel. The Quartet, consisting of the U.S., the United Nations, Russia, and the European Union, was established with the support of the Bush administration in order to take part in the Arab-Israeli negotiating process. But instead of facilitating peace, the Quartet has completely sided with Arab demands. A statement issued by the Quartet on May 3, 2004,...

Palestinian Arab Violations ofPresident Bush's "Road Map" PlanA Survey of Week #47: March 16, 2004 - March 22, 2004   BACKGROUND:    On June 24, 2002, President Bush set forth the conditions that the Palestinian Arabs must fulfill in order to merit U.S. support for the creation of a Palestinian Arab state. Among the major obligations are that the Palestinian Arabs must "dismantle the terrorist infrastructure," "end incitement," "elect new leaders not compromised by terror," and unequivocally embrace democracy and free market economics. None of those conditions were fulfilled.    In March 2003, Yasir Arafat chose Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), the...

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the Bush administration's latest efforts to prevent the implementation of U.S. laws requiring American recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. In a court case in Washington last week, the State Department said that because Jerusalem is a "sensitive foreign policy issue," it does not have to list "Jerusalem, Israel" as the birthplace of American citizens born in Jerusalem. At present, a U.S. citizen born in Jerusalem has the word "Jerusalem," with no country listed, stamped on his passport as his or her place of birth. But in 2002, Congress passed...

NEW YORK- In the wake of the latest suicide bombing massacre carried out by a Palestinian Authority police officer, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is urging the Bush administration to immediately suspend all U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority police and security forces. The terrorist who massacred at least 10 Israelis in a Jerusalem bus bombing on January 29, 2004 was Ali Yusuf Jaara, a PA police officer who was formerly a member of Yasir Arafat's terrorist Fatah Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade. This was just the latest of many instances in which PA police and security personnel were involved...

ZOA Protests U.S. Ambassador's Interference December 23, 2003 Contact: (212) 481-1500 Attn: NEWS EDITOR Amb. Kurtzer Demands Transfer of Jews ZOA PROTESTS U.S. AMBASSADOR AGAIN INTERFERING IN ISRAEL'S INTERNAL AFFAIRS NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly protested the remark, as reported by the Israeli media, that U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer said it would be "unacceptable" if Israel's courts rule that the community of Migron is legal. ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said: "Imagine the outcry if there was an issue before an American court, and Israel's ambassador to the U.S. demanded that the...

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has strongly protested President Bush's erroneous allegation that Israel is guilty of "the daily humiliation of the Palestinian people." Webster's Dictionary defines "humiliate" as: "To reduce to a lower position in one's eyes, or in the eyes of others." The ZOA points out that checking travelers for bombs at security checkpoints does not "reduce them to a lower position" any more than U.S. airline security personnel checking airplane passengers for bombs before they board a plane. ZOA National President Morton A. Klein, Chairman of the Board Dr. Alan Mazurek, and Dr. Michael...

NEW YORK- House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX), the keynote speaker at the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)'s annual Justice Louis D. Brandeis Award Dinner at the New York Hilton on November 16, said at the dinner that when he recently stood on the Golan Heights and looked out across the region, "I didn't see any occupied territory, I only saw Israel." Congressman DeLay said that "the ZOA speaks the simple truth that others are afraid to utter," and that ZOA's efforts on behalf of America-Israel relations are "indispensable." Congressman DeLay also called for "expanding military and economic relations between...

The ZOA thanks you for your overwhelming support to the last Action Alert sent out which with your help successfully targeted 198 congressional districts.  Click Here to take action on ZOA's newest alert. We now ask your help in teaming up with us to push yet another sensible piece of legislation that has been introduced on Capitol Hill, this one by Arizona Rep. Jeff Flake (H.R. 3460). You may remember the horrific killings of three U.S. government personnel in Gaza on October 15, 2003 by Palestinian terrorists. This congressional bill calls for the United States to prohibit assistance provided...

News Advisory: The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), one of the largest and one of the oldest Pro-Israel organizations in the U.S. will be holding their annual dinner on Sunday, November 16, 2003 at 6:30 p.m., at the Grand Ballroom of the New York Hilton, located at 1335 Avenue of the Americas (54th Street). Tom Delay, Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, one of the most influential and Important lawmakers in Washington, as well as one of the most outspoken supporters of Israel on Capitol Hill, will be the Keynote Speaker at the ZOA's Annual Dinner. Majority Leader...

Morton Klein, President of the Zionist Organization of American, will be visit Swarthmore College to deliver his lecture lecture entitled "Israel & the Arabs: Is Peace Possible?" on Monday, October 27th at 7:30 PM in the Scheuer Room.   Mr. Klein is widely regarded as one of the leading Jewish activists in the United States. In acknowledgment of his successful activism, The Forward, a national Jewish weekly, named him one of the top five Jewish leaders in the US today, stating "it's impossible to deny that Klein has been extraordinarily effective." The Philadelphia Jewish Exponent named him one of the...

The Zionist Organization of America of Connecticut College will be sponsoring Dr. Yossi Olmert at Connecticut College on Tuesday, September 23rd at 7PM. This will be held in Ernst Common Room located in Blaustein Humanities Center (which is the building on the left of the library when you face the library). The topic will be “Israel and the USA Fight Terror: Mutual target, Mutual enemy.” This event is in association with the Anti-Defamation League’s Laurel Vlock Campus Lecture Series and the Jewish Federation of Eastern Connecticut. Dr. Yossi Olmert is an authority on Israeli Politics, the Arab-Israeli Conflict and Radical...