Did you hear what Rav Ovadia shlit”a had to say about Amsellem? My comments are quite MILD compared to his – and I stand by them 100 percent.
He wanted to be a court Jew because he had no real position or name in Shas. There is no inyan of loshon horo against one like Mr Emile Amsellem, who I cannot call Haim as he only takes away from “ki hem chayenu.”
I would have had a modicum of respect for him had he joined the Ein Atid list as his equally odious former buddy Lipman did.
That being said, technically I do not think he cost Shas a seat. I think he got RZ voters who found Bayit haYehudi too nationalistic.