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By Joshua Klein
(JUNE 29, 2023 / BREITBART) The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is calling on President Joe Biden to rescind the recent “horrific” appointments of leaders of anti-Israel groups to the Holocaust Museum Council — whose founding principles insist on “support for a Jewish homeland.”
Zionist Organization of America head Morton Klein blasted the recent appointments of two figures — attorney Kimberly Marteau Emerson and former U.S. Ambassador to Spain Alan D. Solomont — to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Council after the president announced his intent to do so last month.
In response to the appointments, the nation’s oldest pro-Israel organization released a statement condemning and urging the “rescission of President Biden’s recent horrific and frightening appointment [last month] to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Council (the governing board of trustees of the Museum) of two board members of hostile-to-Israel non-governmental organizations: Kimberly Marteau Emerson and Alan D. Solomont.”
Klein, who described himself as “a child of Holocaust survivors who lost most of my family to Hitler’s Holocaust,” noted Israel’s place in efforts to recognize the Holocaust:
Congress established the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to memorialize Holocaust victims and “carry out the recommendations of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust in its report to the President of September 27, 1979.” 36 USC §2301. The 1979 President’s Commission report called for the Holocaust Museum to focus both on America’s failings in the Holocaust, including the Evian conference, the inability to believe the Holocaust was happening, and failure of effective action, as well as America’s achievements, including America’s “support for a Jewish homeland.”
“Thus, the Holocaust Memorial Museum – which by law is mandated to carry out ‘support for the Jewish homeland’ – should never have board members of anti-Israel organizations on the Museum’s governing board,” he asserted.
The statement then points to Emerson’s history of attacking Israel.
“Since 2012, Kimberly Marteau Emerson has been an active member of the Board of Directors of the Israel-bashing and America-bashing Human Rights Watch (HRW), which is infamous for falsely accusing Israel of ‘apartheid,’ ‘crimes against humanity,’ ‘persecuting’ and ‘systematic oppression’ and ‘inhumane acts’ against Palestinians,” the ZOA head stated.
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