By Sandy Fitzgerald
(May 28, 2025 / Newsmax) Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein said Wednesday on Newsmax he is “disgusted by” Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe and his attack on President Donald Trump’s fight against antisemitism at the Ivy League school.
“Tribe is a Jew who doesn’t say one word about the fact that Donald Trump is trying to stop these Jew-hating students from screaming in the rallies almost every other day, “global intifada, intifada revolution is the only solution,” Klein told Newsmax’s “Newsline.”
“Intifada means promoting the act of physically attacking, harming and murdering Jews, and they’re calling for a global intifada, meaning to murder all Jews around the world—which includes Laurence Tribe who is a Jew, by the way,” he added.
Tribe, in an interview Tuesday with MSNBC, referred to Trump as a president who “hates intellect, who despises the symbol of excellence in the world of higher education around the world.”
“He thinks he can score points by attacking Harvard, but I have a message, and it’s a message that I wouldn’t bother delivering to him,” Tribe continued. “I don’t know that he’d understand it, but a message to those 7,000 students that he’s trying to frighten away: Don’t be scared. This guy is a paper tiger.”
“All Donald Trump is trying to do is follow the law to have these dangerous, Jew-hating, terrorist-supporting, Hamas-supporting students disciplined, arrested, expelled,” said Klein. “That’s what has to happen. He is simply following the law. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act states if you do not protect students from harassment—including Jewish students—if you do not make sure they’re not discriminated against, then federal funds, according to the law, are required to be withdrawn from the university.”
But Lawrence Tribe, a Harvard Constitutional Law professor, said Klein, is condemning Trump for following U.S. law to protect Jewish students by punishing Harvard for not protecting its Jewish students, “of which Tribe used to be one himself at Harvard University where he was a math major just like me.”
“I find him despicable,” Klein added about Tribe. “He’s taken public positions about many things and he’s been repeatedly wrong about almost everything throughout his whole career.”
But Trump is demanding that Harvard “stop discriminating against Asians and Jews and whites, just like we should never discriminate against Blacks and gays and against women,” Klein said about Trump’s push against discriminatory DEI policies at Harvard.
“Harvard has said ‘no, we will do what we want,’ ignoring the Supreme Court ruling that you must not discriminate against any people, no matter what their background is,” he continued. Trump, however, “wants Harvard to be fair to all students, to protect all students, and to stop discriminating against students. And these terroristic, threatening, anti-Jewish chants on campuses and elsewhere is proclaimed by the Left to be freedom of speech – they would never claim freedom of speech if the chants were against Blacks, gays or Muslims. Remember, there used to be anti-Black cross burnings on houses, back in the ’40s and ’50s and earlier, to intimidate Blacks – and people claimed this was freedom of speech. The Supreme Court said, ‘This is so heinous. They are not free to do those things – it is not protected by freedom of speech.’”
And to call for the murder of Jews and the destruction of Israel is more than “heinous. It is not protected speech under the First Amendment.”
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