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Sunday, February 15, 2015
Netanyahu comes out against ‘anti-Semite’ settler video
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA video put out by the Samaria settler’s council showing a Jewish man accepting money to write unflattering stories for a “Mr. Sturmer” has enraged Israelis, and has now also been condemned by Benjamin Netanyahu.
The video portrays left-wing Israeli NGOs as working to help anti-Semites, with explicit references to the Holocaust.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhbyRb8fu44&feature=youtu.be
“I am stridently against the comparison between organizations or Israeli individuals — from any political stripe — and between Nazi Germany and condemn any use of it for elections,” Netanyahu says in a statement.
The prime minister is under fire for his own video released over the weekend, which portrays a vote for the Israeli left as allowing Islamic State jihadists to take over Israel.
The Times of Israel Community.