Mort Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, argues that Biden's appointments of Robert Malley, Avril Haines, and others represent a hostile policy toward Israel. He cites 2,107 attacks on Jews in 2019 versus 122 anti-Asian incidents, claiming Jews receive less public condemnation, and says Jewish leaders have failed to denounce these appointments.
Mark Klein. By the way, you mentioned 120 or so anti-Asian attacks of one sort or another.
Yeah.
Do you know how many attacks against Jews in 2019?
I actually wanted to know. What is the answer? 2,107 versus 122. So why isn't there hysteria over antisemitism in America? Right?
Because condemning— we're now sensitive to every group in America except Jews. You can say anything you want against Jews.
Well, no, no, no. Right. And Christians, to be honest.
And religious Christians. Serious Christians.
Yes, exactly. All right. There are two issues I want to discuss with you, and it's a toss-up which goes first. So let's begin with the Biden administration. Are we going to see a change vis-à-vis the Middle East and/or Israel?
I think of the very important phrase personnel is policy.
Right.
Joe Biden has appointed the most hostile to Israel and to U.S.-Israel relations group of people ever. This is worse than the people that Obama appointed. And I believe, of course, that Obama and others are behind these appointments now that you have the COVID of Joe Biden. He's appointed people like Robert Malley, who accepts the nuclear Iran, who's against sanctions on Iran. He's appointed Avril Haines, director of national intelligence, who has accused Israel of terrorism and has signed radical anti-Israel letters. He's appointed Mahir Bitar as the senior director for intelligence. These are very important posts. He supports boycotting Israel. He's on the board of Students for Justice in Palestine, a radical anti-Israel group.
Wow, wow, wow. That's like BLM. Yes.
He does conferences, he does seminars on how to demonize Israel. That's what they're called. And also many more, but Hedy Amar, a top State Department official whose role is on Israel-Palestinian issues, he has praised terrorism against Israel, said it inspires him, the Intifada, the terror war against Israel. He accuses Israel falsely of ethnic cleansing and brutally murdering innocent people, and he supports Hamas. And I can go on and on. This is just— handful. Almost every—
who do you think is—
and otherwise, somebody hostile to US-Israel relations.
Mort Klein, who do you think is behind these appointments?
These are all people— almost all these people are people who are very close to Barack Hussein Obama and to Valerie Jarrett. Valerie Jarrett and Obama have both remained in Washington all these years. I understand Jared actually lives or has a place in Obama's home. And I believe they are a critical factor in these appointments, 'cause these are Obama's friends. And now, as I said, he has the COVID of Joe Biden appointing them, with the false image of being a centrist. So it's Obama and the far-left people behind him—Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and such. I believe they're behind these appointments. I know what's really—
go on, go on, go ahead.
What's really troubling about this, in addition to the fact that these appointments are terrible for U.S.-Israel relations, the Jewish world has not only not condemned them, the organizational leaders have not only not condemned them, many have praised these appointments as centrist appointments, which is ridiculous, and have called me, Morton Klein, urging and demanding that I stop criticizing these appointments, that this is not good for the Jews.
I'm quiet because it's like an inverted world of reality. When I get back with Mort Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, I want him to relate to you what happened to him and his organization in parts of Jewish life, and you will see echoes of Catholic life, Protestant life, wherever the left takes hold. He, he is a remarkable man.
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