Biden, Abba Eban, Justice Arthur Goldberg, Ronald Lauder, Natan Sharansky, Simon Wiesenthal, Elizabeth Taylor, Mortimer Zuckerman, Raanan Gissin and Frank Gaffney. Defender of Israel Awards The Zionist Organization presents the 'Defender of Israel' award annually to those who have made major contributions in strengthening U.S.-Israel Relations. US National Security Adviser John Bolton was presented with the Defender of Israel award on November 5, 2018. Media On January 8, 2019, The Times of Israel reported that the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations reprimanded the ZOA for insulting other members. The report continued that ZOA resorted to making "insults, ad hominem attacks and name-calling." It further stated that "ZOA knew, or should have known, that its repeated, patterned public criticisms of two of the complainants were unnecessarily shrill and personally directed, and that they would be seen as personal or organizational insults as much, or more, than they would be seen as substantive criticisms". On February 26, 2019, the ZOA was quoted in a Jewish News Syndicate reported amid American Jewish criticism over Otzma Yehudit Party. The ZOA quote in the story states: "It's strange, troubling and hypocritical that the Anti-Defamation League, AIPAC, the American Jewish Committee and the Israel Policy Forum condemned the technical merger of two small right-wing pro-Israeli political parties, Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Strength) and Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home), but remained silent about mergers of anti-Israel Arab parties led by Arab Knesset members who oppose the Jewish state's existence and engage in outright treacherous conduct, including assisting Palestinian Arab terrorists and inciting anti-Jewish terror." On March 28, 2019, ZOA President Morton Klein was featured in a New York Times article entitled "How the Battle Over Israel and Anti-Semitism is Fracturing American Politics." Klein is quoted in the article, stating: "The issue is not land; the issue is not statehood. The Palestinians don't want peace no matter what, because the Palestinians were offered a state in '37 and '47, and they said no. In 2000, 2001, 2008, they said no." On April 9, 2019, ZOA President Morton Klein told a congressional committee that the "New Zealand mosque murderer was actually a left-wing self-described 'eco-Fascist' who also published a manifesto praising Communist China as 'the nation with the closest political and social values to my own." See also American Zionist Movement Association of Reform Zionists of America Israel lobby in the United States J Street Mercaz USA Nefesh