Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:
The Zionist Organization of America condemns the brutal antisemitic murder of two innocent staffers of the Israel embassy outside the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. This heinous barbaric act by a subhuman killer must be publicly condemned by everyone.
This morally depraved killer was screaming “free Palestine” at the time of these murders.
Firstly, “Palestine” has been free of Jews and Israeli soldiers for twenty years. Instead of building a Singapore in Gaza, its governing body—Hamas—built a terrorist enclave with 500 miles of terror tunnels it used to launch 35,000 rockets at civilian towns in Israel.
Secondly, we must understand that the Jew-hating Hamas-supporting Palestinian Arabs were offered and rejected a state eight times in the last 80 years, starting with the Peel Commission offer of 95% of the rest of Palestine (Jordan already controlled 80% of Palestine). They were offered and rejected a state four times in the last 20 years. Their goal is not a state ─ it is to murder every Jew and destroy the Jewish State of Israel, as the Hamas charter proclaims. In fact, Abbas and the Palestinian Authority pay Arabs a lifetime pension to murder Jews. Neither the UN nor the world ever condemn this Nazi-like policy. It is high time to stop appeasing these violent haters with a dangerous terrorist Palestinian state.
We must now double down to quash the terrorism-promoting demonstrations on college campuses calling to “globalize the intifada” (meaning to murder every Jew); destroy the Jewish State; praising Arab Islamist terrorists and terrorist groups; attacking Jewish students, blocking their entrance to university buildings. This must stop! This only inspires hatred and violence against Jewish people and others. And we must support the deportation of illegal violent criminals.
We must fervently push back hard against the antisemitic lies of “genocide” and “apartheid”. There are more Arabs now in Gaza than when the war began. And Israeli Arabs have rights in Israel identical to those of Israeli Jews. We must fervently push back on the lie of “occupation”. There was never a Palestinian state. Israel has a legal, biblical, political and moral right to a Jewish state. We must fervently push back on the lie that “Jerusalem is holy to Muslims”. It’s never mentioned in the Koran. We must fervently push back on the lie that Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority are “peaceful moderates”. They are extremist Jew-haters and Israel-bashers who name schools, streets and sports teams after Jew-killers, while proclaiming Jews are filth and urging Arabs to ram cars into Jews and slit their throats.
ZOA urges every Jewish group, rabbis and others to immediately retract their support for a Palestinian Arab terror state. We urge all to publicly oppose a Palestinian Arab state, as Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and PM Netanyahu asked of us last February in Jerusalem, Israel.
We are devastated but remain strong and resilient and unified in our war against Arab/Islamist terrorism and in support of the Jewish State of Israel.
We pray for the families of the murdered young souls. May their memories be for a blessing.