Zionist PM’s Son Under Fire Over 'Anti-Semitic' Imagery
AL-QUDS (Dispatches) – From an argument over dog poo to an alleged anti-Semitic caricature he posted on Facebook, Yair Netanyahu, the Zionist prime minister’s 26-year-old son, is courting controversy with his social media activity.
The criticism of Netanyahu in the occupied territories is turning into a sideshow to more weighty events: criminal investigations into corruption allegations against his father and mother. They both deny any wrongdoing.
The young Netanyahu is widely seen in the occupied territories as being groomed by his parents as a future political leader and the Facebook posts have attracted particular public interest.
He posted a cartoon using what the Anti-Defamation League, which monitors anti-Semitism worldwide, described as anti-Semitic imagery in a Facebook post mocking some of his father’s critics.
It included a depiction of U.S. billionaire George Soros at the top of a food chain, dangling the world in front of both a reptile and former prime minister Ehud Barak, a frequent critic of Netanyahu.
Jewish financiers controlling the world are a well-known anti-Semitic theme. Soros supports left-wing organizations that have been highly critical of the Zionist regime and its treatment of Palestinians.
The Zionist regime’s office of the Anti-Defamation League denounced the cartoon on Twitter, writing: "The caricature posted by Yair Netanyahu includes explicit anti-Semitic elements. One cannot belittle the danger inherent in an anti-Semitic discourse.”
In further Facebook posts following criticism for posting the cartoon, Yair Netanyahu, who is a university student, condemned the regime’s left for being two-faced in trying to silence him.
A family spokesman said Yair Netanyahu would not be making any other comment. The prime minister refused to ask questions from reporters about the post on Sunday morning at the start of his weekly cabinet meeting.
The criticism of Netanyahu in the occupied territories is turning into a sideshow to more weighty events: criminal investigations into corruption allegations against his father and mother. They both deny any wrongdoing.
The young Netanyahu is widely seen in the occupied territories as being groomed by his parents as a future political leader and the Facebook posts have attracted particular public interest.
He posted a cartoon using what the Anti-Defamation League, which monitors anti-Semitism worldwide, described as anti-Semitic imagery in a Facebook post mocking some of his father’s critics.
It included a depiction of U.S. billionaire George Soros at the top of a food chain, dangling the world in front of both a reptile and former prime minister Ehud Barak, a frequent critic of Netanyahu.
Jewish financiers controlling the world are a well-known anti-Semitic theme. Soros supports left-wing organizations that have been highly critical of the Zionist regime and its treatment of Palestinians.
The Zionist regime’s office of the Anti-Defamation League denounced the cartoon on Twitter, writing: "The caricature posted by Yair Netanyahu includes explicit anti-Semitic elements. One cannot belittle the danger inherent in an anti-Semitic discourse.”
In further Facebook posts following criticism for posting the cartoon, Yair Netanyahu, who is a university student, condemned the regime’s left for being two-faced in trying to silence him.
A family spokesman said Yair Netanyahu would not be making any other comment. The prime minister refused to ask questions from reporters about the post on Sunday morning at the start of his weekly cabinet meeting.