Email from Zionist Organization of America   ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA IN THE MEDIA     AIPAC Promotes Left-Wing Issues … and Gets Attacked by the Left OPINION Morton A. Klein Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President (Aug. 18, 2026 / JNS) It was painful to see that in response to Thomas L. Friedman’s article in The New York Times criticizing AIPAC, the Jewish lobby group showed support for left-wing positions when, instead, strength and pride were needed. In a response to a post on X, AIPAC supported creating a Palestinian state, even though, especially after the Hamas-led terrorist attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, it is widely understood that such a state would inevitably become a Hamas-Fatah-Hezbollah terror garrison that endangers Israel’s existence, and launches nonstop terror and rocket attacks on all of Israel. AIPAC disregarded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strong opposition to a Palestinian state. And it disregarded that the Israeli Jewish public opposes a Palestinian state, 10-1 (79% to 8%). It also disregarded the fact that Israel’s Knesset overwhelmingly voted to oppose a Palestinian state. The Knesset declared that such an entity “would pose an existential danger to the State of Israel and its citizens, perpetuate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and destabilize the region,” and be quickly taken over by Hamas and reward terror. (Only the nine Arab members of the Knesset voted against the declaration.) AIPAC also disregarded, at a meeting last year of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, that Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar urged U.S. organizations to publicly oppose the creation of a Palestinian state as an existential danger. Notably, in the same post, AIPAC stated that it “respect[s] Israel’s democracy and the rights of its citizens to choose their leaders.” How can it state this when it disregards and opposes the most basic determination by Israel’s people and government that a Palestinian state endangers Israel’s very existence? As a member of AIPAC’s executive committee, when I have asked AIPAC to oppose dangerous moves, such as Israel’s disengagement from the Gaza Strip in 2005, its leaders repeatedly replied that it “supports the position of the democratically elected government of Israel.” AIPAC often stated that (prior) Israeli government support for the Oslo Accords and Gaza withdrawal, both of which ended up as disasters, is why it lent its support to those policies. In response to my opposition and that of the Zionist Organization of America to these harmful moves, AIPAC urged support for the Israeli government’s policies. “Don’t make your own Shabbos!” one AIPAC chairman screamed at me. Unfortunately, when the position of Israel’s democratically elected government is not on the left, AIPAC hasn’t lent its help. For instance, it has regularly pushed to insert support for a Palestinian state into otherwise pro-Israel legislation. Continue Reading   Share This Email Share This Email Share This Email   DONATE   www.zoa.org   Copyright © Zionist Organization of America 2026. All rights reserved. Zionist Organization of America | 633 Third Ave 31 B | New York, NY 10017 US Unsubscribe | Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice