A leading Manhattan rabbi, representing some of the largest Sephardic communities in New York City, on Wednesday threatened to pull his support from the annual Celebrate Israel Parade, on June 1, unless the parade organizers bar “anti-Israel” groups from participating this year.
…the Zionist Organization of America announded that it “strongly opposes the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC)/NY Federation for granting permission to groups that promote boycotts of Israeli companies in Judea/Samaria to march in the Israel Day Parade.”
On Sunday, April 27, 2014 at 11:30 a.m., the Yom Hashoah Mobilization Committee, with the support of the New York Association of Holocaust Survivors, the Orthodox Union, the National Council of Young Israel, Zionist Organization of America, United Against Nuclear Iran, and many other organizations, will lead a rally in front of the Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations. We will gather to commemorate the millions who perished in the Holocaust and to issue a warning that Iran, the world’s foremost leader of state-sponsored terrorism, must not be allowed to have the means to produce nuclear weapons.
We have reached a critical juncture. American military analysts believe that Iran will be ready to test an intercontinental ballistic missile by next year. It’s only a matter of time before Iran will perfect the design of a nuclear weapon to fit on top of a long-range missile.
For the full article and more information about the rally, follow the link above.
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is pleased and proud to announce that Brooklyn College President Karen L. Gould issued a public statement last Friday, apologizing in full to the four Jewish students who were forcibly thrown out of an anti-Israel, anti-Semitic boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) event at Brooklyn College on February 7, 2013. The anti-Semitic BDS event was sponsored by an anti-Israel group, the so-called Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and co-sponsored by the political science department. President Gould’s public statement was part of a negotiated settlement between the ZOA and Brooklyn College, facilitated by mediators from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR). No other outside Jewish organization was involved.
For the full press release the the statement issued by President Gould, follow the link above.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will not give up on his country’s nuclear aspirations, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon warned on Sunday in the midst of an apparent thaw in relations between Washington and Tehran.
Both US President Barack Obama and Rouhani are expected to address the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, leading to speculation of a possible meeting or contact between the two leaders.