Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:
On this sad third anniversary of the horrendous antisemitic massacre of eleven innocent Jewish souls at the Tree of Life Synagogue, we appreciate President Biden’s inspiring words today that “if we give hate oxygen, it can consume,” and “We must always stand up and speak out against antisemitism with clarity and conviction, and rally against the forces of hate in all its forms, because silence is complicity.”
We are however compelled to ask the President, why hasn’t he or Democratic Party leaders implemented his own important words “to speak out against antisemitism with clarity and conviction…because silence is complicity”?
Antisemitism is being given vast amounts of oxygen today by a frighteningly growing number of Jew-hating and Israel hating members of Congress including Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN); Rashida Tlaib (D-MI); AOC (D-NY); Betty McCollum (D-MN); Cori Bush (D-MO); Jamal Bowman (D-NY), Marie Newman (D-IL), Chuy Garcia (D-IL) and others who promote legislation against the Jewish State of Israel and continually and falsely accuse the Jewish state and her Jewish citizens of blood libels, on the floor of Congress and in the media. Radical antisemitic Congressmembers have even claimed that Jewish money buys U.S. policies that oppose U.S. interests, and have praised Jew-killers and Jew-haters. The antisemites in Congress have also impugned the loyalty and patriotism of American Jews. This has likely inspired attacks on and even murders of innocent Jews in New York and New Jersey. Sixty percent of all religious-targeted hate crimes are committed against Jews.
Yet, the President and his party’s leaders have remained deafeningly silent and refused to condemn the Jew-bashers in Congress. As the President said “silence is complicity.”
Even worse, some in the President’s party have even defended these haters of the Jewish people.
