Israeli chief rabbi calls black people ‘monkeys’
Amid Israel’s controversial policy of forcing African migrants back to the continent, one of the regime’s chief rabbis calls black people “monkeys.”
Footage released by Israeli media shows Yitzhak Yosef used a derogatory Hebrew word to refer to black people and went on to call them “monkeys” during his weekly sermon.
The racist comments drew sharp criticism from rights activists.
New York-based Anti-Defamation League reacted in a tweet, saying the “racially charged comment made by Israeli Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, comparing people of color to ‘monkeys,’ is utterly unacceptable.”
This is not the first time Yosef attracts controversy. Last May, he suggested that secular women behaved like “animals.’
In March 2016, he urged Israeli forces and illegal settlers to kill Palestinians, whom they suspect of planning attacks on Israelis.
Yosef’s Saturday remarks came after Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a speech that migrants entering Israel were a bigger threat to the regime than terrorism.
In January, Israel started implementing a plan to deport nearly 38,000 migrants, mainly Eritreans and Sudanese, threatening to detain those who refused to leave. The refugees say they have fled from danger at home.
The plan, initially approved by the Israeli cabinet last November, has drawn concerns from the United Nations refugee agency, which has called it incoherent and unsafe.
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