The president of the Zionist Organization of America is facing a mounting wave of criticism after telling the Forward that it is “simply a fact” that “blacks are much better dancers,” and that “most people know” that Asians “are smarter on average than other people in America.” ZOA president Mort Klein made the remarks in…
Mort Klein, president of a major Jewish pro-Israel group, berated a Forward reporter who called to ask about a joke Klein had made about black people being good dancers in a national magazine story. “What are you, stupid? What are you, stupid?” Klein said. “Each different peoples have different talents that everyone knows. And everyone…
As an organizer on college campuses for J Street U, the campus wing of the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement, I meet a lot of passionate students determined to stand up for a better future for Israelis and Palestinians alike. But I also see how much of the American Jewish and pro-Israel establishment places far-right, extremist voices…
American Jews who love Israel and see boycott as a tool to change the country for the better are anguished over a new Israeli law that could ban them from visiting the country they cherish. Israel’s parliament passed a law February 6 to ban advocates of the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel,…
Donald Trump’s pick to be the next Secretary of State is making Jewish groups very nervous. Rex Tillerson, the multi-millionaire CEO of the multinational oil corporation Exxon Mobil, has been tapped succeed John Kerry as the chief U.S. diplomat, Trump’s transition team announced Tuesday. “There’s some real causes of concern,” said Ron Halber, executive director…
Steve Bannon was a Jewish controversy from the beginning. When Donald Trump appointed Bannon his chief White House strategist, several Jewish groups responded quickly by criticizing him for his role in leading the far-right website Breitbart. Then other groups and individuals leaped to defend him as a friend of Israel, and an employer who treated…
Steve Bannon, the controversial hard-right media provocateur and newly appointed chief strategist to President-elect Donald Trump, is set to attend the Zionist Organization of America’s annual dinner in Manhattan on Sunday — and his appearance is setting off a political firestorm in the Jewish communal world. The Anti-Defamation League has called Bannon “hostile to core…
Alert readers may have read my column from last week, explaining what the World Zionist Congress is about, how the American delegation is elected and why anyone should care enough to vote. Well, the online polls are now open. To register and vote, you need to pay $10 (via credit card) and affirm that you…
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