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JTA’s Dec. 1993 Article on ZOA’s Election of New President Morton Klein 30 Years Ago Today

By Larry Yudelson (DECEMBER 13, 1993 / JTA) The Zionist Organization of America has expressed its dissatisfaction with the progress of Israeli-Palestinian peace accords by electing a hard-line activist as the organization’s president after a hard-fought campaign. Morton Klein of Philadelphia defeated incumbent James Schiller on Sunday in what was described as a close vote. […]

OP-ED Ethiopian-Born Ex-‘Miss Israel’ Calls BLM ‘Jew-Haters’ as Mort Klein Did Years Ago Before Reform’s Rabbi Jacobs & Conservatives Blumenthal Attacked Mort for it — JNS

ZOA president demands that Jewish leaders in America denounce BLM’s “anti-Israel and anti-Jew positions.” By Amelie Botbol (OCTOBER 22, 2023 / JNS) The Chicago chapter of Black Lives Matter (BLM) posted an image of a paraglider in mid-flight with a Palestinian flag on Oct. 10. The tweet was perceived by many as a glorification of […]

EXCLUSIVE: ZOA’s Klein Slams ‘Monstrous’ Obama for Legitimizing ‘Unspeakable Hamas Horrors’

By Joshua Klein (NOVEMBER 7, 2023 / BREITBART) Barack Obama is a “monstrous and dangerous Jew-hater and Israel-hater who must be condemned, deligitimized, and removed from polite society.” That was the verdict delivered Tuesday by Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) head Morton Klein, who accused the former president of “falsely and outrageously legitimizing the unspeakable […]

OP-ED Palestinian Arabs Overwhelmingly Support Hamas & Their Genocidal Aspirations – ZOA’s Mort Klein Op-Ed in The Federalist

Throngs of Gazan civilians cheered the ghoulish site of Hamas parading the bloodied bodies of dead Jews through the streets. By Morton A. Klein (OCTOBER 25, 2023 / FEDERALIST) At least 10 times since Oct. 7, President Biden has stated that the Muslim Arab terrorist group Hamas, “does not represent the Palestinian people,” or variations […]

Newsmax Lists ZOA as a Top Charity to Help Israel in Need

OCTOBER 16, 2023 / NEWSMAX Dear Newsmax Reader: After the devastating attacks on Israeli citizens by Hamas, Americans are standing by Israel. Both our nations were founded on shared values, a shared religious heritage and a shared acceptance of democracy as the best form of government. Right now several organizations have been giving assistance, including […]

Black Lives Matter Group Throws Support Behind Hamas Attacks, Calls Murder of Israelis ‘Self-Defense’

Three years ago, ZOA was the only major Jewish group to condemn BLM antisemitism/Israel-hatred and Reform, Conservative, others condemned ZOA/Mort Klein for that. By Andrew Kerr (OCTOBER 10, 2023 / FREEBEACON) Black Lives Matter Grassroots threw its support behind Hamas in a statement Monday evening, calling the terrorist group’s indiscriminate murder of Israeli citizens over […]