Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:
Talk about a loaded question. During an interview yesterday, about the deportations of violent foreign, non-citizen Jew-haters who have been attacking/endangering/demonizing Jews on college campuses, NPR (National Public Radio) interviewer Michel Martin asked hostile-to-Israel former J Street press Secy, now Jewish Council on Public Affairs director Amy Spitalnick:
“There are other Jewish groups like the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) that are applauding the decision to deport these students. They say this is enhancing the safety of Jewish students and faculty at these institutions. Is it your view that these folks just have it wrong, or that they don’t represent the mainstream of thinking in the community?”
Apparently, the possibility that ZOA might be correct – that deporting antisemitic terror-supporters might make college campuses safer for Jewish students – didn’t occur to the biased, unfair, unbalanced anti-Israel taxpayer-funded NPR. And NPR didn’t ask ZOA’s Morton Klein to be interviewed, only the extremist left wing J Streeter.
The J Street/JCPA head Spitalnick also refused to acknowledge that the deportations of Jew-hating “kill every Jew” Hamas supporters make Jewish students safer.
Instead, Spitalnick falsely insisted that “the overwhelming majority of American Jews” are “deeply concerned” that the deportations are “undermining democracy.”
Based on what?! That’s not what we’re hearing as we speak with Jews from all denominations around the country.
Every time ZOA President Morton Klein calls for deporting the foreign terror-supporting, Hamas/ radical Islam supporting students who are attacking and harassing and demonizing Jews, the audience – whose members hail from every denomination – agrees and wildly cheers while standing and applauding. Additionally, Mort Klein’s recent op-eds in the Jerusalem Post and USA Today, as well as appearances on Newsmax TV and lectures at synagogues, have received extraordinary, overwhelming and unprecedented positive responses.
And, at the Shurat HaDin conference this past October 31, attended by hundreds of Jews from 45 Jewish organizations from around the country, the entire audience loudly cheered when a ZOA panelist (Liz Berney, Esq.) called for deporting the foreign, Nazi-loving, Islamist, pro-Hamas students who are attacking and harassing Jewish students. And a major rabbi at a major prestigious synagogue in NYC told me personally this week that even his synagogue members and other Jews who did not vote for Trump are strongly supportive and deeply appreciative of Trump’s deportation actions and actions fighting campus antisemitism.
The real deep concern here should be that former J Street / JCPA’s Amy Spitalnick, and certain other Jewish groups who signed Spitalnick’s recent “don’t deport dangerous Jew-hating, Israel-bashing Hamas supporters” letter, seem to be more concerned about those attacking Jewish students than their Jewish victims.
Would she be opposing deporting the Ku Klux Klan, Proud Boys or other such groups (especially if they were non-citizen foreigners here on a visa) if they would be calling for the “global” destruction and murder of Blacks, gays or Muslims and if they would be destroying student life and a peaceful learning environment for these students on campus? Would she be taking this dangerous stance for Jews if these same actions were taken by their beloved Pres. Obama or Biden? I dare say, her reaction would be far different under these two possible circumstances.