Zionist Organization of America National President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Director of Research & Special Projects Liz Berney, Esq. released the following statement:
ZOA praises, and hopes all Jewish organizations will join us in praising Black leaders and celebrities who are standing with the Jewish people at this harrowing time. These include Nicole Avant, Chris Rock, Tyler Perry, Tyler James Williams, Angela Robinson, Tiffany Haddish, Dawn Porter and others, who joined in signing a letter demanding the release of the “220 [now 240] innocent people, including 30 children, [who] remain captive by terrorists, threatened with torture and death . . . . taken by Hamas in the savage massacre of October 7, where over 1,400 Israelis were slaughtered—women raped, families burned alive, and infants beheaded.”
Horrifically, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) organizations’ numerous hateful antisemitic, anti-Israel, pro-terror actions and statements after Hamas and Gazan civilians massacred over 1,400 innocent Jews should compel every Jewish organization and all decent people to finally come together to condemn the BLM/M4BL organizations’ hateful anti-Jewish bigotry.
When ZOA previously documented and condemned the BLM/M4BL organizations’ vicious anti-Jewish and anti-Israel platform, blood libels, pogroms, days of rage, collaborations with terrorist front groups, and other activities, certain Jewish organizations, led by Reform movements Rabbi Rick Jacobs and Conservative Jewish movements’ Rabbi Blumenthal and Reconstructionists and Jewish Women’s groups and JCRC Boston, committed Lashon Harah by falsely smearing ZOA and ZOA’s president Mort Klein as “racist” and many demanding Klein and ZOA be thrown out of the Conference of Presidents simply because ZOA told the truth about BLM’s Jew-hatred and Israel-bashing. Jacobs falsely stated that “BLM is at the center of one of the most critical fights for justice in our country.” See “ZOA Demands Apology from URJ’s Rick Jacobs & Others for Denouncing ZOA’s Condemnation of BLM Org’s Antisemitic Israel-Hating Platform,” June 29, 2020.)
And, incredibly, 600+ left wing Jewish organizations signed a statement supporting the BLM movement “uprising.” The statement ignored the bloody chaos BLM created, and accused anyone who dared to mention BLM’s Jew-hatred of “using antisemitic dog whistles.” BLM/M4BL’s newest wave of anti-Israel antisemitic actions and statements and collaborations with terrorist front-groups leaves no doubt as to what the BLM/M4BL organizations stand for.
It is time for those who condemned ZOA and Mort Klein to retract their support of the antisemitic BLM/M4BL and apologize to ZOA and Mr. Klein and to join us in condemning BLM/M4BL’s libels and Jew-hatred.
BLM/M4BL’s History of Jew-Hatred: For years, the ZOA has exposed and condemned the vicious, dangerous Jew-hatred and Israel-hatred perpetrated by the Black Lives Matter organization (BLM) and its parent/umbrella organization, the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL). ZOA’s The BLM Organization Files contains extensive information, including:
- Photos of the Jewish schools, synagogues and businesses that BLM damaged, looted and burnt during BLM’s pogrom on Los Angeles’ Fairfax Jewish community;
- Information on the antisemitic M4BL platform (invest-divest plank, “cut military expenditures” brief) which falsely accuses Israel of perpetrating genocide and other libels, and promotes antisemitic BDS including by promoting BDS “resources” and BDS groups including USPCR and Adalah. Note: This is all still in the M4BL Platform!;
- BLM and M4BL social media posts promoting the same libels and antisemitic actions;
- BLM joining with anti-Israel Palestinian hate groups’ antisemitic “days of rage”; and
- BLM posts, collaborations and joint events with designated foreign terrorist organization PLFP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) and PFLP front groups DCI-Palestine (the deceptively named Defense of Children International-Palestine).
In May 2021, when Hamas launched 4,500 rockets at Israeli civilians, BLM sided with the terrorists, and tweeted: “Black Lives Matter stands in solidarity with Palestinians. We are a movement committed to ending settler colonialism in all forms and will continue to advocate for Palestinian liberation. (always have. And always will be ). #freepalestine.” [#freepalestine means destroy Israel.] |
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