Minister calls out ‘hypocrisy’ of white colleagues who don’t support taking in Ethiopian immigrants

Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata tears into her colleagues for refusing to offer the same degree of sympathy and support for Ethiopian Jews seeking to flee their war-torn country that they are now showing for Ukrainian refugees.

“This is hypocrisy of the white people. We must also work to advance the immigration of Jews from Ethiopia who are also fleeing a war,” she says during the cabinet meeting, according to Hebrew media.

In response, Diaspora Minister Nachman Shai cracks, “we’re from Europe.”

Tamano-Shata doesn’t take the remark well and Finance Minister seeks to calm her down, saying that it was only a joke.

Economy Minister Orna Barbivai doesn’t appreciate Tamano-Shata’s remarks though, saying “How can you say such a thing? How would you react if someone said that Black people are hypocrites?”