Judy Mozes, the wife of Silvan Shalom, the Likud minister responsible for the peace negotiation process with the Palestinians, published an astonishing tweet today:
Mozes is also an heiress of one of Israel’s eighteen oligarch families, which have sizable commercial interests. Among them is the prominent Israeli daily, Yediot Achronot. Her wealth made Shalom the raichest Knesset member by far in the last session. He’s second richest in the current one.
If you consider that the Obama administration was, until a few months ago, spearheading an effort to negotiate a peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians, this gaffe seems particularly poor taste. One wonders, in fact, how Shalom can ever be considered a credible figure for U.S. diplomats to engage. Not that negotiations are expected any time soon (or for the rest of the century, perhaps).
Mozes has apologized in a tweet addressed directly to Pres. Obama, which seems a bit awkward. Does she flatter herself that the U.S. president reads her Twitter feed? At any rate, she excused the joke by saying she’d heard it from someone else. As if her not making the joke up herself lessens the self-inflicted wound.
She might want to consider the route Stephane Richard, the Orange CEO took. He high-tailed it to Israel after endorsing BDS and offered mea culpas to the prime minister, begging his forgiveness for his unpardonable gaffe. I doubt Mozes will be received in Washington if she tries the same thing. I would like to see Michelle Obama take Judy to the woodshed though. That would be a sight to savor.
Many observers of this government have noted its extremism, intolerance, propensity to support violence, and racism. Judy Mozes has only reinforced that impression.
The poster of this silly tweet is known in Israel as July Nir Mozes Shalom Velo Lehitraot (Goodbye and shall we never meet again) and is generally considered to be as bright as a door knob.
Using her as an example for anything is pathetic.
And “Negro Zionist” is any better?
You think Chloe Valdary, after accusing Prof Judith Butler of being a Nazi for supporting BDS, deserves to be called something less insulting than Negro Zionist?? Would disgusting piece of vile detritus be any better?
You Zio poseurs who pretend to care about African American rights are true hypocrites. Watch yrself my friend. Your next bit of provocation here will be yr last.
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The tweet fails the modern standards of being politically-correct but calling it racist is a bit over the top.
“Over the top”? I’ll tell you what. If you still feel the need this late in the game to seperate pepper grains from gnat shit, that’s your business. I’d just as soon call a spade a spade and let the chips fall where they lay.
@james: When a white woman airs a racist insult against a Black man you, a white man, say it’s not racist. Doesn’t pass the smell test my friend. Meaning, you stink!
Racist insult? More like bad joke. This type of jokes has longer beard then 10 Hasidim.
In Judy Mozes’ defense, at least she didn’t come right out and call Obama a “pussy” for letting Netanyahu hoodwink/steamroll him (along with Kerry) in the most recent installment of the “peace process”!
Somebody needs to give this woman a swirlie. For the uninitiated, shoving her head in a toilet and flushing it. Racist pos.