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“Socialists tend to be very hostile to Jews,” Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, told JNS.
“It was shocking to see this incessant focus by the MTA on attacking and demonizing Israel and even Jews,” Susan Tuchman, of the ZOA, told JNS.
The Anti-Defamation League lists Betar US in its “glossary of extremism and hate” database.
New York high court dismisses case against ZOA
The Zionist Organization of America called the allegations “meritless.”
“There has never been a more critical time for increased vigilance in the defense of Israel and in fighting the scourge of antisemitism,” said Morton Klein, national president of the ZOA.
“It is inappropriate for the conference to put out a letter of any sort, frankly, without approval of the members of the conference,” Morton Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, told JNS.
“It’s time to hold accountable organizations whose traitorous efforts to block arms sales to Israel endanger Jewish lives,” the group’s leaders say.
The event was a “powerful evening celebrating Zionist luminaries who are shaping the discourse and security surrounding Israel,” the writer Irit Tratt told JNS.
“I’m doing all I can to stop this administration intentionally ignoring the sanctions on Iran that the previous administration put in place,” Klein told JNS.
“The incidents from last year are part of a broader, disturbing trend,” wrote Sheldon Freilich, the group’s Michigan region president.
“The district not only tolerated the conduct but also indulged it,” the group said in a statement.
It comes in the wake of threats, harassment, intimidation and discrimination against Jewish students at the public institution.
