Israeli reporter interrupted with anti-Semitic slurs during broadcast at Capitol

Agitator accosts Channel 13’s Gil Tamary as he reports on riot by Trump supporters, calls him a ‘lying Israeli’

JTA — A live broadcast from the US Capitol chaos on Wednesday by the chief Washington correspondent of Israel’s Channel 13 news, Gil Tamary, was interrupted by an agitator who used anti-Semitic slurs.

The protester, dressed in all black and holding a GoPro camera, stepped in front of Tamary’s camera mid-broadcast.

“I occupy this space, ok?” the protester said after Tamary asked him to move away, a possible allusion to Israel’s military control over the West Bank.

“I don’t represent… the Israeli government,” Tamary responded.

“I wanna know why…what is a goy? What is a goy? Tell us what a goy is,” the agitator continued.

“I don’t know,” said Tamary.

“Yes you do, you lying Israeli. They play the pilpul game.”

Pilpul, a method of Talmudic analysis, has been appropriated by anti-Semites in recent years, including neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin, who uses it in his publication The Daily Stormer to suggest that Jews are nefarious liars.

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“You are all goy. Goy are cattle. You are cattle today,” the agitator continued, a possible reference to the cattle cars used to transport Jews to Nazi death camps during the Holocaust.

As Tamary and his co-anchor speak in Hebrew and try to regain control of the broadcast, the agitator stepped fully into frame, seen wearing sunglasses and a helmet.

“Thank you Mark. Thank you very much for being with us,” Tamary said as the agitator walks away.

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