Zionist Organisation of America press release
February 7, 2000
The official newspaper of Yasir Arafat’s Palestinian Authority has
urged Arab regimes to boycott this summer’s Olympic Games in Australia, because
there will be a moment of silence at the start of the games in memory of the 11
Israeli athletes murdered by Arafat’s PLO terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
The call for a boycott of the Australia Olympics appeared in an editorial in
Arafat’s official newspaper, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, on January 24, 2000.
Morton A. Klein, National President of the Zionist Organization of America, said:
“If Arafat cannot accept even a moment of silence in memory of those whom
his agents murdered, it indicates that he still has not sincerely repudiated his
history of terrorism. The Clinton administration should denounce Arafat and any
other leader who refuses to honor the memory of the 11 murdered athletes, among
them U.S. citizen David Berger of Ohio.”
Veteran PLO terrorist Abu Daoud admitted in his recent autobiography that he
was one of the masterminds of the Munich massacre. After protests by 42 Members
of Congress and the ZOA, Daoud was forced to leave Jordan and his present
whereabouts are unknown.
The ZOA and former U.S. Senator Metzenbaum (D-OH) have
been leading a campaign to persuade bookstores to refuse to carry the
forthcoming English-language edition of Daoud’s autobiography. As a result, two
of the largest bookstore chains in the U.S., Borders Books and Crown Books, have
announced that their stores nationwide will not carry Daoud’s book. A
spokeswoman for the internet bookstore Amazon.com has said, “We will never
promote a book like that, and that book will be very difficult to find.”
