Facing criticism over his use of the slur “filthy Arab” in a tweet last week, Zionist Organization of America national president Morton Klein repeated the phrase in a voicemail to the Forward — and pointedly refused to back down. Klein asserted in the lengthy voicemail that he had meant that “Arab murderers are filthy Arabs,”…
Mort Klein, the Zionist Organization of America national president, spent two days and nearly 20 tweets last week doubling down on his use of the phrase “filthy Arab” in a tweet. In his protracted online defense of the slur, Klein asserted that he had been narrowly describing the murderer of Israeli-American Ari Fuld in the…
In a lawsuit filed Friday, the former executive director of the Zionist Organization of America accused its longtime president, Mort Klein, of taking secret off-the-books payments from donors, sabotaging the group’s tax exemption to hide his inflated salary, and retaliating after the former executive director blew the whistle on his alleged misconduct. The July 26…
Zionist Organization of America president Morton Klein has dedicated his career to supporting the state of Israel. In that role, he has been caustically critical of the terrorist group Hamas and one of its biggest sponsors, the state of Qatar. Yet recently, Klein’s relationship to the Gulf kingdom has grown more complex. First, he visited…
(JTA) — Three Jewish organizations are accusing the Zionist Organization of America of inappropriately criticizing them. And the ZOA is accusing one of them right back. On Wednesday, the various spats will have a formal hearing at a committee meeting of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations, an umbrella association for Jewish…
After Natalie Portman announced that she would withdraw from the Genesis Prize awards ceremony in Israel to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, one of her harshest American critics has been the Zionist Organization of America and its president, Morton Klein. Now, Klein has stepped it up a notch, drawing criticism in the process. “Natalie…
The Zionist Organization of America is calling on supporters to urge Fox News Channel to fire Geraldo Rivera after the reporter made pro-Palestinian comments on a recent appearance. “Why aren’t companies pulling ads from ‘The Five’ show after self hating Jew Geraldo Rivera expressed regret that he didn’t support the five year Arafat terror war(2001-2006)…
Dear Editor, Forward opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon’s op-ed about the Zionist Organization of America’s November 10, 2017 annual gala engages in the same unsubstantiated smears against Steve Bannon and Dr. Sebastian Gorka that the Forward has previously engaged in, and that were repeatedly shown to be false. The Forward editor compounded this by disparaging the…
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