Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, delivered one of those mystifying sermons (English) that only true believers can fathom. The problem is that they live in such a cocoon insulated from the rest of the world that neither their spiritual leader nor themselves understand how tone-deaf (aka “racist) they are. In a dvar torah (sermon) he […]
Israeli Minister Spews Hate Against African Refugees
The Israeli cabinet is so riddled with racism and corruption it’s hard to know where to start. After the last election, I detailed some of the more outrageous examples of the genre. Tonight, Immigrant Minister Aryeh Deri gets his star turn thanks to an outrageous interview he gave to Army Radio on the subject of […]
Knesset Inquiry Reveals Yemenite Babies Murdered in Medical Experiments, Abducted from Parents, and Exploited in Paid National Institutes of Health Experiments
The Israeli Knesset has, after sixty years of cover-up, exposed one of the most lurid scandals in the history of Israeli medicine. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, inspired by Ben Gurion’s philosophy that Israel must populate itself via Jewish immigration to compete with the Arabs, Israel airlifted tens of thousands of Yemenite Jews […]
Shimon Peres: Don’t Cry for Him, Palestine
As Israelis mourned Simon Peres’ death–scores of world leaders, including two U.S. presidents, one current and one former–there was one conspicuous absence. That was the leaders of the Arab world (with one exception which proved the rule, Mahmoud Abbas) and the Israeli Palestinian community. They found nothing to mourn. Shimon Peres was not their leader; […]
