A caricature published in Haaretz on Tuesday, drawn by its in-house caricaturist Amos Biderman, shows an image of a Chareidi man in Ben-Gurion Airport (which some say is meant to resemble Housing Minister Yaakov Litzman), returning from New York, with his luggage carrying the coronavirus.
“Amos Biderman, you should be ashamed. And the newspaper that published it should be taken out of circulation,” responded MK Yaakov Margi (Shas).
“Even the Der Stürmer [virulently anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda publication] couldn’t have made it more anti-Semitic,” said MK Bezalel Smotrich (Yamina).
“A sad reminder to the dark days of Europe,” wrote Hebrew Mishpacha editor and political commentator Yossi Elituv. “Bearded Jews spreading diseases and endangering the nation.”
“Disgusting! The first wave of the coronavirus came to Israel from vacationers on cruise ships, the second wave began due to lack of adherence to regulations in a [secular] high school in Jerusalem, and that’s without even mentioning the crowded protests on Balfour Street versus the adherence to regulations on the Chareidi street,” wrote Yisrael Cohen, a journalist for Kol B’Rama. “A shame and disgrace.”
There has been much incitement against Chareidim in recent days following the media’s revelation that “17,000 yeshivah students” are entering Israel.
Even after Health Minister Yuli Edelstein clarified that the initiative for foreign student to enter Israel is not only for Chareidim, the incitement continued. There was a heated exchange between MK Eli Avidar (Yisrael Beitenu) and Chairman of the Knesset’s Law and Justice Committee, MK Yaakov Asher (UTJ) on Monday during a committee meeting, with Avidar accusing the Chareidi politicians of being public criminals.
For some reason, Avidar failed to mention the tens of thousands of secular Israelis gathering at frequent protests throughout the country in recent weeks, with most failing to adhere to social distancing regulations and the wearing of masks, and some engaging in criminal behavior.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Why should I make Aliyah and see this in the daily papers? I can see that here.
mamar chazal: when Jews descend they go all the way to the Tehom
“The first wave of the coronavirus came to Israel from vacationers on cruise ships.”
Actually, this is inaccurate. The one infected Israeli that was on the cruise ship was safely brought to Israel and quarantined. The first wave actually started from numerous residents in Ramat Gan who had been vacationing in Europe and disregarded guidelines upon their return.
Haaretz is the main Hebrew anti religious news paper, followed by Ynet. In English there is the notorious Times of Israel which does not allow a positive piece on the religious Jews and often a person is censored from commenting against the ToI bias.
HaShem should help us wipe out these disgusting news rags who push being a goyish culture with disgusting liberal values over being Jewish with Jewish Torah values.
Ahhh, Zionism… Love “Jewish culture”, hate Jewish religion. You gotta hand it to them for their boldness.