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At Arutz 7 Event: ZOA’s Klein Says Jewish Leaders Must Expose Palestinian Regime’s Ugly Human Rights Abuses

This Would Reduce Support for Abbas’ Regime on Campus/Congress and in Media

(JUNE 8, 2023 / ARUTZ SHEVA) Mort Klein, the president of the Zionist Organization of America, spoke at the IHF Arutz Sheva event in Manhattan and said that he thinks pro-Israel groups need to be more forceful in their advocacy.

“I think Israeli Jewish leaders and rabbis are not doing what needs to be done to help Israel and the Jewish people. We need to have our leaders tell the truth about the Arab-Islamic war against Israel. I speak in colleges all the time, and they tell me how horrible Israel is, how the Palestinian Arabs are wonderful people that just want to have a decent family life, they just want a state. We have to explain that the Palestinian Authority is a terrorist dictatorship. We have to explain that Mahmoud Abbas pays Palestinian Arabs a lifetime pension to murder Jews. They spend 400 million dollars a year doing this, and the more Jews they murder the larger their lifetime pension gets. Kids don't know this. Americans don't know this.”


Klein called for the facts of the Palestinian Authority to become a talking point: “This has to be said in every speech that a Jewish leader or an Israeli leader gives. They have to know that Abbas says, publicly and repeatedly, if there's a Palestinian State no Jew will be allowed to live there. Knowing these truths diminishes the support for the Palestinian Authority. They have to know that the Palestine Authority names schools and streets and sports teams and children's camps and sports tournaments after Jew-killers.”


Klein displayed the emblem of the Palestinian Authority, pointing out details: “This emblem should be shown all the time. This is the official emblem of the Palestinian Authority. It shows the shape of all of Israel with a kefiah over all of it - not just Judea and Samaria and Gaza and eastern Jerusalem, all of it - along with a picture of [former PA chairman Yasser] Arafat and a rifle. Nobody has seen this, but this is their official emblem. When you show this it makes people understand they're not dealing with people who just want freedom and a decent life, but a terrorist dictatorship which has enormous hatred toward the Jewish people.”


The emblem was not the only image Klein displayed: “We also have to show them the posters!” he insisted, holding up an example. “College students I show this to are shocked that every Jew-killer has a poster made of him, like this one, calling him a hero and a martyr. This one happens to show Egged buses being blown up, with a Jewish star broken in pieces with blood flowing through it. They honor Jew-killers!”


“We have to reduce support for the Palestinian Authority by letting them know what a monstrous terrorist regime this is. When I give these speeches to college kids their support for the Palestinians drops. They become ashamed of supporting them and they understand Israel's predicament. Right now they do not understand this.

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Founded in 1897, ZOA played a key role in the Jewish State's re-establishment. Today, ZOA is the leading major American Jewish organization courageously defending Israel and the Jewish people; fighting against all forms of antisemitism, including anti-Jewish boycotts; and promoting the Jewish people's lawful right to live in and settle historic Jewish lands. ZOA exposes that a Palestinian state would endanger Israel's existence; presents the facts about the Arab/Islamic war against Israel; and combats the anti-Israel lie that Israel is an "occupier" of her own land. ZOA spearheaded long battles to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, and apply civil rights protections to Jewish students. ZOA provides free legal assistance and programs to pro-Israel students at numerous college campuses. ZOA's bold, unapologetic voice has a significant impact on public discourse and policy.

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