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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWife of Israeli Interior Minister makes racist tweet
https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/612641812520542208I won't post her racist joke here, I am just linking to a retweet of it.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)dembotoz
(16,808 posts)But then again after comments this week from trump...maybe there r no standards anymore
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)This is who they are.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)On the part of the Labour Party, Kadima, and such, racism is not so prevalent.
It's Likud and its friends where the prejudice has found a welcoming home. As Bill Clinton once said: "Bibi's problem is that he doesn't see Arabs as humans."
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Not only that, but in addition to rightwing anti-Arab racism, there's racism within the Jewish population.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)As a sidenote - some of the tweets in that feed attempted to beg that not "everyone" there is like that, which of course would certainly be the truth.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)When you wrote "within the Jewish community", I assumed you alluded to some specific Jew-on-Jew prejudice.
BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)there have been many issues regarding the Falasha.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)Apparently, religious conversions are complicating matters.
This is the first time I hear about the existence of the Falash Mura, the descendants of Jewish Ethiopians converting to Christianity.
BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)They live in a bubble world where such expressions are just hilarious, and then when caught, they think "deleting" puts the nefarious genie back into its bottle while simultaneously rolling back time. It's interesting that in that twitter feed, Joan Walsh's handle is popping up in others' tweets, so I expect the way that twitter works, she might have seen this.
CTBlueboy
(154 posts)Lets see who comes and defends this
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)that "joke" isn't even funny. It's just offensive, unoriginal, and corny. This is about as lame as when people call him "Obummer".
Cha
(297,314 posts)as stupid.
Har har.. let's talk about President Obama's skin color.. glad she outed her stupid self.