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Aaron Klein is an American radio host for Middle East news segments and commentary. He is the Jerusalem Bureau Chief for the news website WorldNetDaily. He served as a co-host of ABC Radio's national "The John Batchelor Show" which is currently on temporary hiatus. Klein also has a column that appears every week on Page 2 of The Jewish Press. He is known for his regular interviews with Middle Eastern leaders.
Exclusive interviews
Klein routinely conducts interviews with top Middle East leaders and newsmakers. Personalities he has interviewed have included the late PLO Leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Hamas chief Mahmoud al-Zahar, Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano, former Lebanese Prime Minister Michel Aoun, Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, imprisoned spy Jonathan Pollard, leaders of the Taliban, Palestinian negotiation minister Saeb Erekat, former Israeli foreign minister Shlomo Ben Ami, worldwide Al-Muhajiroun leader Omar Bakri Muhammad, Army of Islam leader Abu Muhammad, West Bank Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades leader Ala Senakreh, Popular Resistance Committees leader Abu Abir, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades rocket chief Abu Oudai, 2002 siege of the Church of the Nativity leader Jihad Jaara, among many others.
Background
Klein got his start in journalism at Torah Academy Boys High School in Philadelphia, where he graduated from a class of five. He edited the boys high school's monthly newspaper, The T.A. Times.
Klein attended college at Yeshiva University in New York while serving as editor-in-chief of The Commentator, the undergraduate student newspaper.
In his capacity as editor, Klein drew the ire of Yeshiva administrators with regular investigative pieces questioning University practices, such as the then-policy of not allowing students to speak at graduation ceremonies. After Klein quoted school officials accusing the University of misusing an $8 million donation, Yeshiva administrators allegedly ordered the regular removal of student newspapers from campus news stands. During Klein's tenure, issues of The Commentator were also reportedly routinely removed from the campus and disposed of during public events hosted by the University.
Klein told the NY Times, which reported on the issue, the last straw for him was the removal of an issue of The Commentator reporting on the fact that the newspapers were being removed. Klein threatened to sue Yeshiva. The fiasco generated national media attention, with coverage in the Times, US News and World Report and on television. In the end, the University signed a contract in which it agreed to discontinue its Commentator confiscation practices. Yeshiva reimbursed the student newspaper for the thousands of missing Commentators.
Klein attended Jewish schooling from nursery through college. He is the oldest of ten children and hails originally from Philadelphia.
External links
- Aaron Klein's article archive
- Aaron Klein's bio page
- Klein barred from Syria
- Klein/Humphries radio interview with Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades
- Leaders of Lebanon condemn Syria over Klein snub
- Klein served as college newspaper editor-in-chief
- NY Times article on Klein
- "WorldNetDaily's Digitial Cudgel," ConWebWatch, August 24, 2006
- "WorldNetDaily Undermines Olmert: Biased WND reporter Aaron Klein is portraying the Israeli incursion into Gaza negatively in order to attack Israel's prime minister," ConWebWatch, July 12, 2006