Email from Zionist Organization of America   ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA IN THE MEDIA     ZOA’s Mort Klein Quoted in JNS On Pres. Carter Including His Legitimizing Blood Libel of Israeli “Apartheid” “Jimmy Carter deserves the credit for normalizing this vicious antisemitic lie [apartheid] against Israel,” Klein said. By Vita Fellig (January 2, 2025 / JNS) In a Dec. 29 statement, U.S. President Joe Biden referred to former President Jimmy Carter, who had just died at 100, as an “extraordinary leader, statesman and humanitarian,” who had “compassion and moral clarity” and “saved, lifted and changed the lives of people all across the globe.” “What’s extraordinary about Jimmy Carter,” Biden added, “is that millions of people throughout America and the world, who never met him, thought of him as a dear friend.” Experts told JNS that Carter is likely to have a far more complicated legacy over time, particularly among Jews. “I think that he got progressively worse on the Israel question after his presidency,” the presidential historian Tevi Troy told JNS. “I think he was bitter about how he lost the Jewish vote, since Reagan got a higher percentage of Jewish votes than any Republican president since Eisenhower, and the Jewish community has been very critical of Carter for a good reason.” Troy, a fellow at the Ronald Reagan Institute and author, most recently, of the book The Power and the Money about the “epic clashes” between presidents and industry titans, told JNS that Carter’s negative reputation in the Jewish community is deserved. “I think everyone across the community was unhappy with this book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, and I think it was really inappropriate for him to use the ‘apartheid’ word in conjunction with Israel, since it is not accurate,” Troy said. “In his book, he was also angling to make Hamas a legitimate partner, which clearly they are not,” he added. “I think he was just strategically wrong on Israel.” (...) Morton Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, told JNS that Carter helped legitimize the idea of accusing the Jewish state of apartheid. “Jimmy Carter deserves the credit for normalizing this vicious antisemitic lie against Israel, and we should never forget what he did,” Klein said. “In addition, in his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, he legitimized terrorism and stated more or less that terrorism is the only way the Arabs can get what they deserve.” Klein told JNS that Carter is unfairly praised for his role in helping Israel negotiate the Camp David Accords, because the peace agreement required Israel to make costly concessions. “Carter pressured Israel relentlessly to give away the four oil wells in the Sinai that Israel had developed, even though Israel did not want to give them away,” he said. “Israel would now be earning $10 billion a year from oil had they kept those oil wells, and we should never forget that Carter pressured Israel against Israel’s will.” “Carter pressured Israel to throw out 5,000 Jews from Yami, a Jewish town in the Sinai, and this led to Sharon throwing out 10,000 Jews from Gaza and northern Samaria,” Klein added. “If Begin had not thrown out the Jews from the Sinai, it would have been very hard for Sharon to have made the terrible mistake of throwing Jews out of Gaza and Sinai.”  “I think the Sinai peace agreement is at best a mixed bag,” Klein said. CONTINUE READING   Share This Email Share This Email   DONATE     Copyright © Zionist Organization of America 2025, All rights reserved. Zionist Organization of America | 633 Third Ave 31 B | New York, NY 10017 US Unsubscribe | Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice