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Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Chair Mark Levenson, Esq. released the following statement:
The Zionist Organization of America demands an apology and retraction from Union of Reform Judaism (URJ) President Rick Jacobs and other Jewish leaders for libeling ZOA President Morton Klein. After Mr. Klein appropriately called out the Black Lives Matter (“BLM”) organization’s virulent, institutional antisemitism, other discriminatory hatreds, and anti-Israel blood libels, enshrined in the BLM/M4BL (Movement for Black Lives) platform, Facebook page and activities, URJ’s Rick Jacobs called Mr. Klein a “racist” and “Islamophobic” in articles printed in multiple newspapers. URJ/Jacobs also invoked these libelous names to condemn ZOA’s membership in the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (the “CoP”) – an organization that the ZOA co-founded! Certain other leftwing Jewish leaders from the Reform and Conservative Jewish groups, women’s groups and Ameinu, whose president is treasurer of the extremist J Street, and the pro-BDS Peace Now and Workmen’s Circle also signed a letter (see below) falsely accusing Mr. Klein of promoting “hate in organized Jewish life,” and issued numerous similar tweets and website postings.
In sum, Rick Jacobs and those other Jewish leaders are essentially, absurdly, irrationally, and libelously saying that accurately calling a racist, antisemitic, Israel-hating organization “antisemitic” and “anti-Israel” makes one a “racist” and an “Islamophobe” who promotes “hate.”
These attacks by Rick Jacobs, etc. never give any reasons why Mr. Klein’s criticism of the BLM group’s antisemitism is wrong or false or inaccurate. They provide no facts to back up their name-calling or disparagement. Jacobs and others simply call Mort Klein names, with no explanation.
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