By Joshua Klein
(SEPTEMBER 23, 2021 / BREITBART) After House Democrats announced they will nix roughly $1 billion in funding for Israel’s Iron Dome defense system from the short-term government funding bill, Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) head Morton Klein blasted the move, calling Democrats who supported the move “overt Jew-haters” while urging the president and Democrat leaders to issue a condemnation.
The Democrats’ recent removal of a clause providing $1 billion in supplementary funding for Israel’s Iron Dome, a defense mechanism to reduce deaths from launched rockets from terrorists, came after radical progressive legislators held the party hostage by pledging to block the government funding bill if funds for the Iron Dome were included.
In response to the last-minute decision, the nation’s oldest pro-Israel organization released an exclusive statement to Breitbart News on Thursday which began by accusing “overt Jew-haters” in Congress of supporting “terrorist dictatorships” over Israel.
“It is frightening that the U.S. Congress now consists of overt Jew-haters like Reps. AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] (NY), Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), Mark Pocan (Wis.), Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), Jamaal Bowman (NY), Cori Bush (Mo.), Pramila Jayapal (Wash.), Betty McCollum (Minn.) and others who are supporting the anti-American Palestinian Arab terrorist dictatorships of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority over the pro-American human rights loving democracy of Israel,” the statement begins.
Klein continues by highlighting the defensive nature of the Iron Dome which is designed to intercept short-range rockets and artillery shells before reaching civilian populated areas.
“Their opposing funding [of] Israel’s solely defensive weapon of the Iron Dome shows their ugly antisemitism has no limits,” it reads.
