Likud and opposition lawmakers condemn reported comments made by PM’s spokesman

Both Likud lawmakers and opposition politicians condemn Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesman and acting chief of staff Ziv Agmon, after Channel 12 reports he made multiple racist statements against Sephardi Jews, including Likud MKs, and launched scathing attacks on the premier, his wife and son in private conversations.

“Someone who speaks this way about Mizrahi Jews, about Moroccans, didn’t just ‘have a slip of the tongue’ — he simply said out loud what he truly thinks in his heart,” tweets Likud MK Eli Revivo, whom Agmon allegedly called a “retarded Moroccan.”

“Such a person is not fit to serve the public in any capacity for even one more minute. Anyone who chooses to keep him in their circle or as their representative thinks exactly like him.”

Likud MK Nissim Vaturi, whom Agmon allegedly called a “baboon,” writes: “The frustrated Ziv Agmon, who failed to get elected to the Knesset after several attempts — if these reports are true, he needs to be sent home right now.

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid declares that Netanyahu’s associates include “a suspect who admitted to taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from a state that supports terrorism, a rape suspect, a racist of the lowest kind, and someone who secretly records everyone and gives it to the media.”

Meanwhile, Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz calls on Netanyahu to fire Agmon “tonight,” a sentiment echoed by Yisrael Beytenu chief Avigdor Liberman and The Democrats head Yair Golan, who asserts that “Netanyahu surrounds himself with racists, criminals and vile people.”