(4) Reform shut down Israeli leaders from speaking:  At the spring 2023 Extraordinary World Zionist Congress, and again at the spring 2023 Jewish Agency meetings, Reform and other slates on the left prevented the Chairman of the Israeli Knesset’s Constitution Committee, Simcha Rothman, from speaking about judicial reform.  At the WZC, Israeli security had to rescue MK Rothman from a leftwing mob.  At the Jewish Agency, Reform leaders repeatedly prevented Chairman of Israel Knesset Constitution Committee from speaking

ZOA Coalition is the 30+ leading organizations defending Jews, Jewish students, and the Jewish people’s rights to Israel-Judea-Samaria.

The ZOA Coalition includes: the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) • Amariah • American Friends of Ateret Cohanim • American Friends of Judea & Samaria (AFJS) • American Friends of Likud • Americans Against Antisemitism • Americans for a Safe Israel (AFSI) • Americans for Peace & Tolerance (APT) •  B.A.M. (Bad A—Mothers) • Betar • CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting & Analysis) • Chovevei Zion • Emet Va Emunah • #End Jew Hatred • EZRA USA: Russian Jewish Youth • Israel Heritage Foundation • JCC Watch • National Jewish Advocacy Center (NJAC) • NORPAC • North Carolina Coalition for Israel (NCCI) • One Israel Fund (OIF) • Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce • Rieders Family Foundation • Save the West • Students Supporting Israel (SSI) • The Lawfare Project • The Greenwald Family Impact Foundation (TGFIF) • The Gross Family Center for the Study of Antisemitism and the Holocaust • The Israel Innovation Fund  • United Mashadi Jewish Community of America (UMJCA) • Young Jewish Conservatives.

In addition, World Likud endorses the ZOA Coalition.

The ZOA Coalition includes Russian, Persian, Syrian, Bukharin, Ukrainian, Latino,
French, Israeli, Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrahi, and other American-Jewish communities.

ZOA Coalition has a 128-year record of accomplishment, leading the way, and fighting to strengthen Israel and protect the Jewish people.  You can count on the ZOA Coalition to work to strengthen Israel-Judea-Samaria; combat BDS and all forms of antisemitism; fight to protect Jewish students; prioritize Aliyah; support Israel’s brave soldiers; oppose the creation of a Palestinian-Arab terror state on Israel’s lawful land; stand up for Israel’s soldiers; and globalize Jewish safety.  

Some other slates say that they “will” do some of these things – but the ZOA Coalition has successfully been doing all of this for years.

In the WZC’s earliest years, ZOA helped obtain Israel’s rights to the land of Israel under binding international law.  No other slate can say this.  And in recent Congresses, ZOA Coalition initiated and obtained passage of virtually every positive resolution at the WZC.  

ZOA Coalition is also the only slate comprised of 30+ of the strongest pro-Israel organizations.  (See “Who is the ZOA Coalition”)

ZOA Coalition is also the only slate endorsed by World Likud.

Every major American Jewish organization at the forefront of fighting for Judea-Samaria is in the ZOA Coalition, including One Israel Fund, American Friends of Judea and Samaria (AFJS), Americans for a Safe Israel (AFSI), ZOA and more.

Every major American Jewish organization at the forefront of combating antisemitism is in the ZOA Coalition, including Americans Against Antisemitism, Students Supporting Israel, End Jew Hatred, CAMERA, The Gross Family Center for the Study of Antisemitism and the Holocaust, Betar, ZOA and more.

Every major American Jewish organization at the forefront of protecting Jewish students on campuses and in the courts is in the ZOA Coalition, including Students Supporting Israel, The Lawfare Project, ZOA (via ZOA Campus and the ZOA Center for Law and Justice), and more.

Major Persian, Russian, Syrian, Bukhairian organizations and candidates are in the ZOA Coalition, including the United Mashadi Jewish Community of America (UMJCA); EZRA USA: Russian Jewish Youth; Emet Va Emunah, and more.  ZOA Coalition represents virtually every American Jewish community.

ZOA Coalition made huge financial (over $50 million), diplomatic and contributions to help Israel, Israel’s soldiers and displaced Israelis in Israel’s time of need.

We are running again because of how we can help Israel and the entire Jewish people.

ZOA Coalition, via its endorser World Likud, which now holds the chairmanship of the World Zionist Congress, has: brought countering antisemitism programs to American cities; brought American Jewish leaders from communities on our slate on learning trips to Israel; held learning meetings with American groups visiting Israel; arranged learning sessions and meetings with Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations; sent shaliachs; brought American Jews from our communities to countering antisemitism meetings in England and Poland to compare practices; and more.

• ZOA Coalition placed leadership in Israel’s national institutions that directed KKL funds to  security assistance and other projects in Judea-Samaria.

• ZOA Coalition initiated and obtained passage of every World Zionist Congress resolution supporting Judea and Samaria, including preventing BDS against Judea-Samaria; calling for immediate exercise of sovereignty over Judea-Samaria; educational initiatives about Israel’s legal rights to Judea-Samaria; requiring WZC entities to use the correct terms Judea-Samaria instead of the incorrect “West Bank,” etc.

• Every major American Jewish organization at the forefront of fighting for Judea-Samaria is in the ZOA Coalition, including One Israel Fund, American Friends of Judea and Samaria (AFJS), Americans for a Safe Israel (AFSI), ZOA and more.

• The ZOA Coalition works hard to spread the truth about the Jewish people’s rights to the Land of Israel – including Judea-Samaria.  For instance, the ZOA Coalition initiated and obtained passage of a resolution to establish a worldwide WZO program to teach about the 1920 San Remo Resolution, one of the key international agreements that guarantees the Jewish people’s legal right to settle and re-establish the Jewish homeland.

• ZOA Coalition has been at the forefront of opposing a Palestinian Arab state, and pointing out that such a state would be an existential danger to all of Israel.

The AZM is an American umbrella organization consisting of American organizations who participate in the World Zionist Congress.  Each slate receives seats on the AZM Board based on the number of delegates that slate wins to the World Zionist Congress.  Your vote for the ZOA Coalition thus also helps us obtain seats on the AZM board.  We need those seats to help us transform the AZM into an organization that combats antisemitism in America.

We will never forget what happened when ZOA (led by Morton Klein), ZOA Coalition member American Against Antisemitism (led by ZOA Coalition candidate Dov Hikind) and ZOA Coalition candidate Ben Kogan led the September 2019 protest in front of New York’s City Hall, demanding real protection for Jews in Brooklyn and throughout the New York area who were increasingly being attacked.   ZOA Coalition asked AZM and the other slates at the AZM to join us.  We were shocked when they all declined to do so, saying, “That’s not our mission.”  We believe that AZM and every slate with a seat there should help combat antisemitism!

Nor can we ever forget the vote on AZM’s antisemitism policy at the June 2019 AZM board meeting.   ZOA Coalition was the only slate that voted to retain a clause saying that antisemitism is “manifested in activities such as anti-Zionism.” Every other slate present voted to remove this important clause.  But, with enough votes, we can transform AZM!

This is one more reason why your vote for the ZOA Coalition counts and is needed.   

The World Zionist Congress is the parliament of the Jewish people.  

Theodore Herzl founded the WZC in 1897 in Basel, Switzerland.  The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA, previously called the Federation of American Zionists) was the only organization representing American Jewry at the first WZC and many subsequent WZCs.  At the First World Zionist Congress, ZOA helped launch the effort to secure the lawfully-recognized Jewish homeland and lay the economic, legal and diplomatic foundations of the Jewish state.  In subsequent decades, the World Zionist Organization (WZO) and ZOA worked to successfully obtain the Jewish people’s rights to the land of Israel under binding international law.

Today, the WZC meets once every five years in Jerusalem.  38% of the delegates are from Israel; 29% (152 delegates) are elected from the United States; and 33% are from other Diaspora countries.  In addition, about 100 delegates come from specified international organizations.  

The WZC has an important say in the policies, leadership and funding priorities of Israel’s non-governmental national institutions, including the World Zionist Organization (WZO), Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI), Keren Kayemet L’Israel (KKL) and Keren Hayesod.  Approximately $1 billion per year is affected.

The ZOA Coalition includes Russian, Persian, Syrian, Bukharin, Ukrainian, Latino,French, Israeli, Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrahi, and other American-Jewish communities.

No!  Every Jewish U.S. citizen or permanent resident who meets the election qualifications can vote for the ZOA Coalition.

You are eligible to vote if you are:
• 18 years old or over by June 30, 2025
• Jewish (and do not subscribe to another religion)
• A United States citizen or permanent resident.
• Accept the Jerusalem program
• Did not vote in the November 2022 Knesset election

An umbrella organization called the American Zionist Movement (AZM) administers the World Zionist Congress election in the United States.  AZM charges each voter a $5 fee to cover AZM’s costs of administering the election, including the costs of the outside vendor, that runs the election’s mechanics.  ZOA Coalition helped reduce the previous $7.50 fee that AZM charged in the 2020 election to the current $5 fee.

The World Zionist Congress establishes some rules.  The U.S. Area Elections Committee (the “AEC”) establishes other significant election rules.  

The left often works to obtain rules that unfairly favor them.  ZOA Coalition’s representatives on the AEC, Elizabeth (Liz) Berney and Nachman Mostofsky, have been working hard to obtain fair election rules.  Some small slates on the right have failed to show up for AEC meetings, which wasted the public’s votes for them.  Your vote for the ZOA Coalition will increase the ZOA Coalition’s weighted vote on the AEC, and help ZOA Coalition assure fair rules in future elections.

Yes!  

The ZOA Coalition includes Jews from all religious streams as well as secular Jews.  

Many Reform Jews disagree with key troubling Reform slate political policies, and instead agree with the ZOA Coalition’s policies and strong activism for all the Jewish people.  

For instance:

(1) BDS – divestment - against fellow Jews:  The Reform slate openly calls for – and works for – stopping or curbing investment in Israel over the 1948 Armistice lines, also known as the “green line” – the line where the fighting stopped after seven Arab countries invaded Israel in 1948 and seized parts of the land legally designated for the Jewish people.  The areas beyond the green line include Jerusalem’s Old City, Israel’s holiest sites and the historical Jewish centers of Judea-Samaria.  800,000 Jews live in these areas, and the Reform slate’s position endangers their security and lives.  
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If you believe in protecting Jews everywhere in the world, including the land of Israel, please vote for the ZOA Coalition slate!

(2) Opposing appointments of friends of Israel:   In February 2025, the Reform Action Committee (part of the Reform slate) sent a letter to every U.S. Senator, opposing the confirmation of one of Israel’s and the Jewish people’s greatest friends, Governor Mike Huckabee, to be the U.S. Ambassador to Israel.  ZOA promptly wrote a letter to every Senator, urging the Senate to confirm Governor Huckabee and to dismiss the Reform leader’s attack on a great friend of Israel and the Jewish people.  
 
If you believe in assuring that Israel’s friends have key administration posts dealing with the Middle East, please vote for the ZOA Coalition!

(3) UNRWA:  While seeking to defund 800,000 Jews, the Reform slate promoted funding Hamas-infiltrated UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency) during the 2020 election – despite UNRWA using its facilities and personnel to attack Israel, and despite UNRWA teaching generation after generation to hate Israel.  The Reform slate and movement has still not supported defunding UNRWA, even after UNRWA employees participated in October 7 atrocities, even after UNRWA facilities were used for Hamas control centers and imprisoning hostages, and even after Israel outlawed UNRWA.  
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ZOA Coalition also introduced and obtained passage of the 2024 World Zionist Congress resolution condemning UNRWA and calling for UNRWA to be dismantled.   

The nine new slates running in the 2025 WZC election have no record at the World Zionist Congress.  It is very risky to vote for a slate with no record.  Many have not even disclosed where they stand on the vital contentious issues that the WZC deals with.  Instead, their  campaigns are based on general platitudes, such as “democracy,” “unity” and “the future.”  

Despite having no record, several new slates are attempting to claim that they will do what ZOA Coalition has been successfully leading and doing.  Some new slates may not obtain enough votes for a single delegate, and votes for them will be wasted.  One new slate is sponsored by an organization that is approximately half controlled by Christians.  (ZOA Coalition loves Christian Zionists, but this is an election for the parliament of the Jewish people.)  Over 200 candidates left that slate when they learned more about the slate.  Another new slate is supported by far left groups involved in anti-government protests in Israel.  
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By contrast, ZOA Coalition has a 128-year record of accomplishment, leading the way, and  fighting to strengthen Israel and protect the Jewish people.  You can count on the ZOA Coalition to work to strengthen Israel-Judea-Samaria; combat BDS and all forms of antisemitism; fight to protect Jewish students; prioritize Aliyah; support Israel’s brave soldiers; stand up for Israel’s soldiers; and globalize Jewish safety.  Many candidates from new slates left those slates and joined ZOA Coalition when they learned more.  

ZOA Coalition is the only slate comprised of 30+ of the strongest pro-Israel organizations.  ZOA Coalition is also the only slate endorsed by World Likud.

An educated voter is a voter for the ZOA Coalition.