Bar-Illan Backs ZOA In Friedman Tiff, Ignites Foxman Ire

Forward, November, 1996

Forward 11-29-1996 Bar-Illan Backs ZOA In Friedman Tiff, Ignites Foxman Ire. FORWARD STAFF WASHINGTON -- A spat over the Anti-Defamation League's decision to invite a columnist for The New York Times, Thomas Friedman, to be an after-dinner speaker is erupting into a bitter battle between the ADL, the Israeli government and the Zionist Organization of America. The president of the ZOA, Morton Klein, wrote to the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, last week, urging Mr.

Foxman to cancel Mr. Friedman's scheduled speech at a Dec. 8 dinner dance in Los Angeles because of what the ZOA called Mr. Friedman's "long and troubling record of one-sided journalistic attacks on Israel." Mr. Foxman replied that the ADL was "proud" to host Mr. Friedman,...

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