ZOA National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:
One of the most heinous blood libels circulating today to malign the Jewish people is the blood libel that Israel is causing starvation in Gaza. In fact, Israel has facilitated huge amounts of aid into Gaza in an unprecedented effort to help the enemy population that committed the most inhumane atrocities against Israelis and still holds Israelis hostage.
From October 2023 through July 28, 2025, Israel facilitated 1,876,948 tons of aid into Gaza, on 96,796 trucks and 10,450 pallets, via land, air and sea – including food (including fruit and vegetables, ready-to-eat food parcels, meat, poultry, fish, dairy products, eggs, flour, rice, sugar, cooking oil, canned food, high energy biscuits, etc.); shelter equipment; water; medical supplies; fuel; and infrastructure equipment. Water is available via 3 water pipelines from Israel, 2 water pipelines from Egypt, pumping facilities and more. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) – established to try to prevent Hamas from looting humanitarian aid – is delivering to Gazan residents over 1 million boxed meals per day. Gazan markets are overflowing with fruit, vegetables and other foodstuffs.
We thus appreciate that Congressman Randy Fine (R-FL) has repeatedly debunked the starvation lie spread by Hamas and by the other individuals, organizations and media outlets that adopted Hamas’ lies. Ironically, national news reports show overweight Gazan Arab women with normal weight Gazan children screaming that they’re starving. They show muscular normal weight Gazan Arab men vigorously and energetically running into the sea to grab food bags dropped from the air.
The falsehoods about Israel causing famine of the Gazan Arab civilians, 90% of whom had supported Hamas and the massacre/rape of Jewish babies, children, women and men, are promoted as a way to demonize Jews. U.S. Senator Tom Cotton said that Israel has no responsibility to provide aid to enemy Gazans during a war started by Arab Islamic terrorist group Hamas, just as the U.S. never provided aid to enemy Germans or enemy Japanese during WW II or to Iraqis during the U.S.- Iraq war. Is anyone screaming about the horror and numerous deaths that Ukraine and Russian civilians are enduring during their war?
Unfortunately, one of Congressman Fine’s tweets about this was taken out of context and unfairly condemned. In response to Rep. Richie Torres’ unfair criticism of Rep. Fine, Rep. Fine aptly responded: “What a fraud. My post was in response to debunked Hamas propaganda, which Torres conveniently edits out.” Indeed, Rep. Fine’s post noted: “This [Hamas’ starvation claims] is all a lie anyway. It amazes me that the media continues to regurgitate Muslim terror propaganda.”
AJC (American Jewish Committee), under its director former Democratic Congressman Ted Deutch, also improperly condemned and took Rep. Fine’s tweet out of context. AJC wrongly alleged that Rep. Fine “impl[ied] that starvation is a legitimate tactic.” Rep. Fine’s point was that the starvation in Gaza is Hamas propaganda and moreover he is horrified that these Gazans supported Hamas and cheered in the streets applauding and praising the October 7 atrocities where 1,200 of his fellow Jews were brutally murdered.
Why did AJC publicly condemn a great Jewish Zionist Rep. Randy Fine while exhibiting a deafening silence when Jew-hating, Israel-hating Arab Palestinian Rep. Rashida Tlaib publicly shouted that the antisemitic, Israel-bashing chant “from the river to the sea” heard throughout the country and on campuses is simply a “call for freedom” for which Congress actually censured Tlaib?
ZOA also appreciates that Rep. Fine has been at the forefront of combatting the related hoax / libel / lie spread around the world that a picture of a sickly Gazan child was “the face of famine.” In fact, the child had a rare genetic disease, for which he was obtaining treatment in Italy. See Rep. Fine’s tweets about this here and here. In the latter post, Rep. Fine appropriately wrote: “If kids were actually starving in Gaza, the New York Times wouldn’t have had to use a picture of a child with a rare neuro-muscular condition to lie and claim there was. Everything about the “Palestinian” cause is a lie. Everything.”
We are also grateful that during the past week, Rep. Fine condemned Islamists’ recent smoke bomb attack on a Montreal church, noting, “First they come for the Saturday people. Then they come for the Sunday people.”; condemned France’s recognition of a Palestinian Muslim terror state as a surrender to Hamas; condemned CAIR’s leaders for celebrating genocide, and promoted his bill to designate CAIR as a foreign terrorist organization; condemned the Islamist airline crew that removed 50 Jewish French children singing Hebrew songs from a French airline, and warned about this happening here; and reminded the world that Hamas started a genocidal war and called for Hamas’ unconditional surrender. Why was AJ Committee’s Deutch not praising Rep. Fine for these important stands by Rep. Fine?
A Congressman who takes all these courageous, important stances – and also wears a kippah to express solidarity with Jewish students who are afraid to wear kippot on college campuses – as Rep. Fine does, deserves our thanks instead of condemnation.