Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:
The World Zionist Congress (the “WZC” – the worldwide parliament of the Jewish people) has a “Va’ad Hapoel” (working committee) - a “mini” World Zionist Congress, consisting of approximately one quarter of each slate’s representatives, that meets annually during the “off years” when the full World Zionist Congress does not meet. This year, the WZC Va’ad Hapoel is meeting virtually on December 19-21. The theme of this year’s Va’ad Hapeol is supposed to be “Combating Antisemitism” – an effort that is desperately needed at this time when physical and verbal attacks on Jews and Israel are dramatically rising all over America and the world. Jews are no longer safe in the streets of Los Angeles, Boston, New York, London, Paris, Lod and Jerusalem, from attacks perpetrated by Islamists, Arab Israelis (against their Jewish neighbors), the Black Lives Matter organization, Black Muslims, other Marxist and anti-Israel groups, and neo-Nazis. In the halls of the U.S. Congress, Congresspersons Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, AOC, Cori Bush, Betty McCollum and others spew antisemitic venom and promote anti-Israel legislation with impunity.
Unfortunately, far left wing members of the World Zionist Congress are attempting to derail the WZC’s “Combating Antisemitism” efforts by blocking efforts to address the real antisemitism tormenting and endangering the Jewish people. The far leftist leaders of Meretz (which includes Partners for Progressive Israel and Ameinu, which is led by extremist left wing anti-Israel J Street’s treasurer) and Arzenu/ARZA (the Reform movement) are proposing that the “parliament of the Jewish people” should instead expend its limited resources on non-antisemitism issues such as: labeling Israel as racist; combating “racism”; combating homophobia; combating supposed anti-Arab prejudice; combating “other structures of discrimination”; and assisting illegal Eritrean Muslim migrants in Israel (whose documented high levels of criminal activity have injured many of South Tel Aviv’s poor, elderly Jewish residents).
In addition, the left-wingers are proposing that those whom it labels as “racist” (namely, anyone whom the far Left disagrees with) should be removed from the Zionist movement. This is “cancel culture” gone amok.
The left wing WZC groups are also demanding that the World Zionist Organization should support and join the work of the anti-Israel New Israel Fund (NIF)/Shatil’s “Coalition Against Racism,” which includes the so-called “Association for Civil Rights in Israel” (ACRI) and the Mossawa Center. ACRI and Mossawa (which are funded by extremist Israel-bashing Soros’ Open Society Foundations, NIF and European governments) defame Israel as “racist” and “an apartheid regime” and with other blood libels at the United Nations and other international fora, and bring lawsuits to undermine the Israel Defense Force’s efforts to protect Israelis from violence and terrorism.
