Morton Klein Fights Anti-Semitism
and BDS Across the Globe
Morton Klein Fights Islamic Anti-
Semitism Before Congress
On April 9, 2019 ZOA National President Morton
Klein testified before the House Judiciary Committee
at a hearing on “Hate Crimes and the Rise of White
Nationalism,” where he bravely exposed the truth of
Islamic Anti-Semitism. “According to the FBI, Jews are
the victims in 60% of religiously-motivated hate crimes.
Jew-hatred is the canary in the coal mine,” said Klein
while testifying.
Citing data from a major international poll, Klein
pointed to an extraordinary level of Muslim Jew-hatred.
After surveying 100 countries, the poll found that 49%
of Muslims harbor anti-Semitic attitudes. In the U.S.
alone, the prevalence of extreme anti-Semitism among
Muslims is 34%, versus 14% of the general population.
This can be attributed to anti-Semitic themes in the
Koran and the Hadith, which are strengthened by significant
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institutional support by the major Islamic theological
academies, and by the leading and most respected
Imams. This is how Muslim anti-Semitism is becoming
mainstream.
Despite the shocking statistics, this pandemic of
Islamic anti-Semitism draws little attention and condemnation.
Morton Klein urged that if something is
not done, the United States is in danger of seeing the
same hatred and violence that is rampant throughout
Europe. He explained that in order to stop institutions
from supporting and condoning Islamic anti-Semitism
and the anti-Semitic BDS movement, Congress must
take the first step. Klein urged an investigation of the
SJP and BDS terror connections; passing a strong federal
anti-BDS law; and demanding that university leaders
not only condemn the SJP hate group, but also prohibit
them from being part of the university system of funded
student groups. He also urged that lawmakers remove
anti-Semitic Congresswomen Ilhan Omar (D-MN),
Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
(D-NY) from their committees.
Immediately, attempts were made to silence Morton
Klein, but no one at the Zionist Organization of America
will be silenced. Klein’s landmark testimony on Capitol
Hill made headlines across the world, and he and the
ZOA were praised for bravely exposing the truth about
Islamic Anti-Semitism.
ZOA National President Morton
A. Klein Speaks at International
Anti-BDS Conference in Jerusalem
In June 2019, ZOA National President Morton
Klein was featured as an exclusive speaker at the largest
international anti-BDS conference in the world,
sponsored by Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs
and Diplomacy. The invitation-only Annual Global
Coalition 4 Israel GC41 Forum and the Legal Network
Initiative were held in Jerusalem.
In front of 350 pro-Israel and Jewish leaders and
activists from 40 countries, Morton Klein participated
on a two-person panel with the President and CEO of
the Jewish Federations of North America Eric Fingerhut,
formerly of Hillel International, on the topic of “How
the BDS campaign is convincing young Jews to support
the boycott of Israel.”
Officials of the Ministry of Strategic Affairs have been
expressing alarm at the recent surge of Jewish youth
engagement in, and sometimes leadership of, the BDS
campaigns of a number of countries. Morton was invited
to present his American perspective specifically because
of his reputation as a relentless fighter against BDS, and
because of ZOA’s longstanding record of combating
BDS, anti-Semitism, and other manifestations of delegitimization
and hatred singling out Israel and the Jews.
ZOA’s Center for Law and Justice and ZOA Campus
have each been recognized as models of support for the
Jewish students who increasingly face intimidation and
harassment from BDS-affiliated professors and college
peers.
Klein was joined at the conference by an illustrious
group of speakers, including Minister Gilad Erdan; World
Jewish Congress CEO Robert Singer; Simon Wiesenthal
Center Associate Dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper; Jewish
Agency Chairman Isaac Herzog; Conference of Presidents
Executive Vice Chairman Malcolm Hoenlein; U.S.
Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism
Elan Carr; Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Yaakov
Katz; and a host of others.