Lapid likens MK’s remarks to Germany in 1930s

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid likens racist remarks by “some Knesset members” to those common in Germany in the run-up to World War II.

In comments that appear to be directed at Jewish Home MK Betzalel Smotrich — who on Tuesday called for segregated Jewish, Arab maternity wards — Lapid says: “Knesset members are spreading blatantly racist comments of the sort that were common in Germany in the 1930s. It’s dangerous.”

Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid party speaks at the opening of the Yedioth Aharonot conference at the Jerusalem Convention Center on March 28, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid party, at the opening of the Yedioth Ahronoth conference at the Jerusalem Convention Center on March 28, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

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