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Morton A. Klein

Morton A. Klein is national president of the Zionist Organization of America. Follow him on Twitter @mortonaklein7.

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Stopping Short of Victory Against Iran Endangers America and Israel

By Morton A. Klein

The deal’s apparent long ceasefire also only plays into the Iranian regime’s delaying tactics. We’ve repeatedly seen that “ceasefires” with the Iranian regime and its proxies mean “we cease and they fire.”

In Print / Op-Eds

Iran Is an Enemy of the United States

By Morton A. Klein

These extremists at both ends of the spectrum ignore that the Iranian regime has been attacking Americans for close to half a century. As Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei declared in November 2023, the chant Death to America! it is not just a slogan – it is a policy.

Op-Eds

Mel Gibson Can Change His Antisemitic Image

By Morton A. Klein

As Trump’s new Hollywood ambassador, Gibson has chance to revise ‘Passion’ film’s anti-Jewish narratives, following Oberammergau’s example.

Op-Eds

Biden’s Israelophobic Actions Show Sinister Intent, Not Election Concerns

By Morton A. Klein

What explains President Joe Biden’s anti-Israel actions since Oct. 7? Painfully, the facts require that we recognize that it’s Biden’s longstanding animus toward the Jewish State.

Op-Eds

The Dangers of a Palestinian Arab State Are Truer Now Than Ever

By Morton A. Klein

In 1999, then-U.S. senator from Florida Connie Mack gave a speech describing the PA leadership’s incitement of hatred, terrorism against Jews and Israel.

Headline / Op-Eds

Biden's 'Benign' Barbs to Israel

By Morton A. Klein

Let's not be fooled. Extolling "ironclad friendship" between America are simply meaningless and phony words

Op-Eds

Victory for Democracy and the Rule of Law

By Morton A. Klein

The "reasonableness standard" was abusive, violated democratically-passed laws; was used to oust a democratically elected minister; and was subjective: What's unreasonable to one person is reasonable to another.

Op-Eds

Lapid Shouldn't Campaign Against Israel in US-or ANYWHERE

By Morton A. Klein

The late Menachem Begin always said that Israeli officials should never condemn Israel when traveling abroad.

Diaspora / Featured / Israel / Left vs. Right / Non-Orthodox / US

Conservative Rabbis' Cancel Culture Infects Prayer for Israel

By Morton A. Klein

Kalmanofsky stated that he does not want Israeli leader's efforts to succeed.

Op-Eds

Cancel Culture Comes to Conference of Presidents

By Morton A. Klein

The mission’s purpose was supposed to be to learn directly from Israel’s key elected leaders about vital and serious issues that confront Israel.

Op-Eds

Double Standard: Trump Condemned but Free-Pass for Other Pols Legitimizing Jew-hatred

By Morton A. Klein

The former president was wrong to host antisemites, but other political leaders have legitimized Jew-haters with no pushback. Why?

Op-Eds

Silence=Support

By Morton A. Klein

America’s presidents, past AND present, must confront and condemn the antisemites who are spreading Jew-hatred throughout our country now.

Op-Eds

Far-Left Rabbis’ Defamatory War Against Pro-Israel Jewish Charities

By Morton A. Klein

T’ruah is making common cause with the anti-Israel “Squad” in the U.S. House of Representatives and efforts to persuade the IRS to remove the tax-exemption status from these charities.

Op-Eds

AIPAC Needs to Live up to Being the ‘Pro-Israel Lobby’

By Morton A. Klein

Its unwarranted criticism of Israel for not admitting entry to two pro-BDS congresswomen sheds light on the longstanding problem of AIPAC opposing Israel on certain key issues

Op-Eds

Hamas Couldn’t Have Asked For More

By Morton A. Klein

In the tweets of Omar and Tlaib, a Hamas spokesman could scarcely have hoped for a more faithful reflection of his own talking points.

Op-Eds

A New Breed: Reps. Omar, Tlaib, And Occasio-Cortez

By Morton A. Klein

The views of these new members of Congress not only introduce toxic anti-Israel extremism to Capitol Hill; they contribute to the mainstreaming of anti-Semitism in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Headline / Op-Eds

Vicious Anti-Semitism – From A Congresswoman

By Morton A. Klein

Tlaib accused U.S. senators sponsoring a law against the BDS movement of looking out for the interests of Israel rather America's, ironic considering that she literally wore a Palestinian flag while pledging herself to the Palestinian Arab cause when she was sworn into office.

Op-Eds

An Open Letter To Airbnb’s Chairman

By Morton A. Klein

Moreover, only Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria were targeted. Your company did not de-list Palestinian-Arab homes in the area. Its policy, therefore, cannot be called anything other than anti-Semitic, plain and simple.

Op-Eds

The UN: Trump's Work Is Not Done

By Morton A. Klein

Haley's "comet" at the UN will be sorely missed by all who value democracy and truth

Featured / Op-Eds

The Oslo Disaster – 25 Years Later

By Morton A. Klein

The 25th anniversary of the disastrous Oslo Accords falls between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur – a most fitting time to reflect on its legacy.

Op-Eds

The Iran Deal: Trump Vs. Obama

By Morton A. Klein

Whether the reinstated sanctions are effective will depend on European compliance. Despite rumblings of discontent from European leaders who wish to maintain the deal, it appears they will largely comply with U.S. sanctions rather than invite penalties upon themselves for violating them.

Op-Eds

ADL Mourns Deaths of (Overwhelmingly) Hamas Terrorists as “Horrific Tragedy”

By Morton A. Klein

ADL, Bernie Sanders, NY’s Elite Beacon School & Some British Jewish Youth Also Disgracefully Mourn Hamas Deaths. Such sympathetic proclamations only encourage more Hamas terror against Jews.

Op-Eds

Israel’s Iran Expose Demands Serious Action

By Morton A. Klein

The Israeli intelligence coup demonstrates as few things could that the depth of the Iranian regime’s extraordinarily complex nuclear deception requires that Iran’s entire nuclear infrastructure be dismantled if international security is to be obtained.

Op-Eds

Abbas was Always Anti-Semitic - Why are People Shocked by His New Anti-Semitic Speech?

By Morton A. Klein

This is the same Mahmoud Abbas who has continued to name dozens of schools, streets, sports teams, summer camps, and public squares after terrorists who murdered innocent Jews. He’s the same leader who honors terrorists with television specials, days of celebration and mourning, and $355 million per year of financial payments to Jew killers and their families.

Op-Eds

Israel-Bashing, Biased Historian David Myers Should NOT Head Center for Jewish History

By Morton A. Klein

The Center for Jewish History should be led by an honest, carefully accurate historian or other executive – not by hostile-to-Israel propagandist David N. Myers.

Op-Eds

ZOA Opposes Tillerson Decision to “Return” Jewish Artifacts to Iraq

By Morton A. Klein

The ZOA urges Tillerson and the State Department to immediately reverse their immoral decision, and to return these Iraqi Jewish artifacts to their rightful Jewish owners: Iraqi Jewish families

Featured / Op-Eds

The ZOA Has Criticized President Trump Plenty

By Morton A. Klein

ZOA's Morton Klein responds to allegations against the ZOA which appeared in The Forward.

From the Paper / Op-Eds

Truth Is Not A Political Position

By Morton A. Klein

Hurling labels such as “right wing,” “ultra-right,” or even “extreme.” avoids fair, reasoned, fact-based debate on the issues, and instead attempts to delegitimize.

Op-Eds

The FORWARD Smears WH Aide Gorka with Spliced Video and Falsehoods

By Morton A. Klein

The Forward is smearing Dr. Gorka as anti-Semitic, using a Hungarian TV interview video spliced to delete Gorka’s denunciation of anti-Semitic parties and the fact his party was not involved with them

Op-Eds

France Criticizes Trump, but Forgets its Own Past Statements

By Morton A. Klein

French Pres. Hollande claimed it is wrong to criticize an ally and France would never do that to an ally. It seems France has a short memory as it is CONSTANTLY criticizing its 'ally' Israel

Analysis / Featured

5 Anti-Friedman US Ambassadors Hostile to Israel, Supported Iran Deal

By Morton A. Klein

The 5 signatories damaged U.S.-Israel relations and exacerbated the situation in the MidEast. Several of them have financial or other ties to hostile-to-Israel groups. They are biased and not credible

Op-Eds

Jerusalem’s Holiness To Muslims Is A Myth

By Morton A. Klein

It is only under unified Israeli rule since 1967 that Jerusalem has been revitalized , offering full freedom of religion for its mosaic faiths – precisely what would be threatened by its re-division

Op-Eds

Barack Hussein Obama's Anti-Semitic UN Act - What Now?

By Morton A. Klein

Because numerous Jewish organizations refuse to support the legal, political, historic, and religious right of Jews to live in the Jewish homelands in Judea/Samaria and east Jerusalem, Obama succeeded

News Briefs

ZOA Praises Federations for Lifting Ban on Visiting Judea/Samaria

By Morton A. Klein

We urge all Jewish groups like AIPAC and others to begin to visit the Jewish communities in Judea/Samaria, as well.

Op-Eds

ZOA Condemns UC Berkeley Course on Dismantling Israel

By Morton A. Klein

The course reading materials do not even attempt to present contrary readings and source material from historians and other scholars who do not condemn Zionism.

Op-Eds

Reflecting on 9-11 and Remembering the Victims and Heroes of 9-11 and their Families

By Morton A. Klein

In the wake of 9-11, almost the entire nation felt a sense of unity, an overwhelming gratefulness to firefighters and police who risked and in many cases lost their lives. Where has all this gone?

Op-Eds

ZOA: BlackLivesMatter Platform Falsely Accuses Israel of Genocide, etc. - Yet ADL Still Promotes BLM

By Morton A. Klein

ZOA again urges the ADL and Jonathan Greenblatt to stop promoting #BLM and to unequivocally condemn the anti-Semitic, Israel-hating #BLM.

Op-Eds

ZOA Criticizes ADL's Acceptance of Congressman Hank Johnson’s Phony Apology for Calling Jews “Termites”

By Morton A. Klein

It’s not only wrong for the ADL to have failed to condemn as blatant anti-Semitism Cong. Hank Johnson (D-GA)’s “termites” label for Jews living in YESHA and to have accepted his phony apology “tweet

Op-Eds

Polls Demonstrating Muslim Intolerance and Support for Terrorism Help Explain Recent Attacks

By Morton A. Klein

Troubling statistics on Muslim attitudes toward Western values help explain the relentless avalanche of terrorist attacks perpetrated by Muslims

Op-Eds

Formally Recognizing Israel’s Jewishness Will Not Set Back Peace

By Morton A. Klein

Historically, legally, politically, and religiously Israel is the Jewish nation state.

"Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Egypt / Gulf States / UAE / Iran / Islamists / Jordan / Lebanon / News Briefs / Op-Eds / Palestinian Authority / Qatar / Saudi Arabia / Settlements / Syria / Terrorism / US

'Sec’y of Nonsense' Kerry: PA-Israel Pact the Key to Mideast Peace

By Morton A. Klein

John Kerry says an Israeli-Peace peace pact is “important to “regional security and stability.” ZOA says he is full of nonsense: Arab wars on Israel have nothing to do with their own internal problems.

Op-Eds

Why Do Some Jewish Groups Have A Problem With Legal Protection For Jewish Students?

By Morton A. Klein

Imagine if the NAACP had responded with skepticism to the passage of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and urged African Americans to exercise their civil rights cautiously under this law. Title VI was landmark legislation when it was passed in 1964 to remedy racial and ethnic discrimination in programs receiving federal funding.

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