Zionist Organization of America

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The Zionist Organization of America is a Zionist organization in the USA with headquarters in New York City . It was founded on October 28, 1897 and today has 30,000 members and branches in twelve major US cities.

The aim of the organization is to deepen the relationship between the USA and Israel. To this end, she lobbies in the Capitol (Washington) , sets up educational programs and combats anti-Israeli tendencies in the media, books and universities. It claims to be the only organization that records Palestinian- Arab violations of the roadmap and that campaigns prevented the nomination of "aggressive critics of Israel" for influential positions in the US government.

According to its own statements, the ZOA played a key role in the perception of the Israeli terrorism victims by the US Congress, the unity of Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty and the fight against Hamas and Fatah . She works to enforce sanctions against Syria and Saudi Arabia .

ZOA has set up a Campus Activism Network to organize college students to fight Arab propaganda at universities . For this, “student activists” are trained in Israel. ZOA also operates a “Center for Law & Justice” that is active in courts for Israel and Jews. The US State Department has been sued for disregarding a law that allows US citizens to be "Jerusalem, Israel" in passport documents. With the help of the courts, ten “anti-terrorist websites” were closed.

One of the organization's presidents, Louis Brandeis, was a US Supreme Court Justice from 1916 to 1939 .

Prizes and awards

The award winners awarded by the ZOA include:

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 917.