Posted on 05/22/25
ZOA National President Morton A. Klein shared:
“The Zionist Organization of America ZOA condemns the brutal antisemitic murder of two innocent staffers of the Israel embassy outside the Capitol Jewish Museum. This heinous act by a subhuman killer must be publicly condemned by everyone.
We must understand that the Jew-hating Hamas-supporting Palestinian Arabs were offered and rejected a State 8 times in the last 80 years, starting with the Peel Commission offer of 95% of the rest of Palestine (Jordan already controlled 80% of Palestine). They were offered and rejected a state 4 times in the last 20 years. Their goal is not a State- it is to murder every Jew and destroy the Jewish State as the Hamas charter proclaims. In fact, PA Leader Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority pay Arabs a lifetime pension to murder Jews. Neither the UN nor the world ever condemns this Nazi like policy.
We must now double down to quash the terrorist promoting demonstrations on college campuses calling to globalize the intifada (meaning murdering every Jew), destroy the Jewish State, praising Arab Islamic terrorists and terrorist groups, attacking Jewish students and blocking their entrance to buildings. This must stop! This only inspires hatred and violence!
ZOA urges Ted Deutch of the American Jewish Committee, Dennis Ross of the Washington Institute of Near East Policy, AIPAC, Jonathan Greenblatt of ADL, Rick Jacobs of the Reform Jews, and Blumenthal of the Conservative Jews, and the Reconstructionist Jews and others to immediately retract their support for a Palestinian Arab terror state. We urge Moshe Hauer of Orthodox Union, the Dan Mariaschin of Bnai Brith, William Daroff and Harriet Schleifer of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, StandWithUs and others to publicly oppose a Palestinian Arab State as Israel’s Foreign minister Gidon Saar and PM Netanyahu asked of us last February in Jerusalem, Israel.
We pray for the families of the murdered Jews. May their souls be for a blessing.”
Morton A. Klein serves as national president of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the oldest pro-Israel group in the United States, founded in 1897. He also serves as a member of the National Council of AIPAC and is widely regarded as one of the leading Jewish activists in the United States. He is a child of Holocaust survivors, born in a displaced persons camp in Gunzberg, Germany.