Radio broadcaster Ron Koffman on Tuesday morning engaged in shameless incitement against the Chareidi sector, calling them a “cancer” of the Israeli public.
Koffman said during a live broadcast on Radio 103FM: “The place needs to be cleaned out from the inside – the Eichlers – 13% of the public is a cancer to Israeli society.”
Koffman’s words created an immediate uproar. Kol Chai journalist Avi Mimran tweeted: “We need to ‘clean’ 13% of the society? Ron, how – gas chambers? Extermination? Transfer?”
Shas MK Uriel Busso responded: “We’ll continue to take care of your grandson who is studying in a Chabad gan so he’ll receive the best.” Busso was referring to the fact that last month, Koffman made a surprising announcement on the radio – that his grandson is enrolled in the “best gan in Tel Aviv” – the Chabad gan, adding that the gan has a waiting list of 460 children.
The right-wing B’Tzalmo human rights organization wrote a letter to the Public Inquiries Commissioner of the Second Authority for Television and Radio, David Regev, with a demand to immediately begin the process of suspending Koffman.
The head of the organization, Shay Glick, stated: “I have no words to even express the shock that a broadcaster in the State of Israel, the Jewish State, dares to call his brothers the worst word in the arsenal of words, “cancer.”
“The word cancer means a foreign plant that enters the body and consumes it. Honorable Chareidi citizens of Israel are an inseparable part of Israeli society. It’s unfathomable for a broadcaster to stand up and open his mouth against Israeli citizens just because they’re Chareidi.”
“But I’ll say more than that. Mr. Ron Koffman is invited to come and visit the cancer wards throughout the country where he will certainly discover crowds of the Chareidi public – not as cancer patients but as members of organizations that help Jewish and Arab cancer patients – religious and secular.”
“This man must be suspended immediately, the Authority should initiate a disciplinary process against him, and I hope that during his suspension, he’ll spend some time in the cancer wards in hospitals. He will see how many Chareidi volunteers there are and realize for himself how wrong he was. He should apologize and start volunteering in these organizations.”
Following Glick’s request, Public Commissioner Regev stated that the Public Inquiries Commission opened an inquiry into the complaint and contacted the station to receive its response.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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18 Responses
He is a nazi, and he is the cancer that is destroying Eretz Yisrael from within. He has no share in Olam Haba.
Hate crime, in USA he would be arrested and investigated, but in Israel the Jpoop gives it great coverage. He really deserves to be fired but the left has sickos decided what is PC correct.
No end insight, at hate Haaretzism virus.
& Ron Koffman is both a cancer & a parasite to both the entire עולם הזה as well as to the entire עולם הבא
Don’t hold your breath. He will stay. This inquiry is just lip service.
Can you say ‘ EREV RAH” ? The worse anti-semities nebech are Jews………..
““The word cancer means a foreign plant that enters the body and consumes it. Honorable Chareidi citizens of Israel are an inseparable part of Israeli society. It’s unfathomable for a broadcaster to stand up and open his mouth against Israeli citizens just because they’re Chareidi.””
Although this Zionist said something despicable, it happens to be true that since Zionism is diametrically opposed to Judaism, Jews who follow Judaism are therefore not a part of Zionist society, of those who follow Zionism.
This is news?? That has been the Hilonim’s “party line” since the 19th century. It was a founding principle of the zionist movement, well over a century ago.
At least the chilonim now know what they are dying of. Question in only where is located and how long will it take.
I think it’s still better than when they call us “Parasites”
Maybe we can daven for him to have a refuas hanefesh………. and that Hashem shold ut more appropriate thoughts in his heart and mind… Tfillah……. big koach if we mean it sincerely… mimaamakim. Sinah has no place, even by us, the chareidim.
To RABBAIM.
Indeed we should also daven for Shikma Bresler, Holocaust trivializer.
Hate crime, in USA he would be arrested and investigated
Lazerc, what on earth are you talking about? Are you out of your mind? In the USA the government could not do anything about this at all. His employer would probably fire him for this, but there would not and could not be any legal consequences. In the USA we have freedom of speech, so the government has no right to treat people differently depending on the viewpoint they express. It can’t even do anything that would have a chilling effect on expressing such a vile opinion. And that’s how it should be.
On what “right” do the anti-Judaism racist-lefty fanatics sit in Eretz Yisrael ?
If they reject the Tanach – history, then it is only they who are racists. What right — if the don’t accept the Tanach Jewish history — do they dwell after they conquered villages where Arab immigrants (or their children, today they’re called “Palestinians”) lived before?
Uganda?
LGBTQIABCDEFGHIJ is the Sartan (cancer)
Now go cancel me
Things,
They don’t believe Tanach was written or inspired by Hashem. But they do believe the historical narrative.
It’s not so out there. I saw a video of a Yeshiva High school. They were celebrating the completion of Shmuel Aleph in their Jewish history class. They learn it as Torah during limudei kodesh & as Jewish history dur
*during limudei chol.
[YWN really needs to move the “Post comment” button. I (& I’m sure others) constantly accidentally press it when typing. Thanks in advance.]
Please stop wishing on or referring to ANY fellow Yid – the Yenem Machala.
I still feel strongly about this despite that many in Israel (across both left/right spectrums) are actually guilty of higher wave of autoimmune disregulation & carc3nomas going arround in the past 2 years.
Please love & pray for ALL Klal Yisrael as if they’re your immediate family. I invite you to relearn the Gemara in Kerisus: Kol Taanit shein bo Poshei Yisrael…
…BH I think we’re yotzeh according to all opinions 😉