PM’s supposed next spokesperson won’t get role after racist remarks unveiled — report

Tal Gilboa, a hardline animal rights activist said poised to become Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s next spokesperson, will not be appointed to the position, the Walla news site reports, stating that, rather than being offered the role, she was given the opportunity to join the premier’s “spokesperson team.”

The Prime Minister’s Office has not confirmed Gilboa’s appointment, which was announced over the weekend by her partner, and has not replied to a request for comment from The Times of Israel.

Netanyahu’s previous spokesman, Ziv Agmon, has quit after remarks he made against Jews of Middle Eastern descent and against the premier himself surfaced.

Walla’s report comes a day after Gilboa’s supposed appointment was condemned by opposition leaders angered by what a Channel 12 report highlighted as a history of making bigoted and prejudiced remarks.

Gilboa, a former reality television star who founded the Israeli branch of the extremist Animal Liberation Front, was cited attacking Russians, members of the LGBTQ community and meat eaters, among others.

In a report on Saturday, the network quoted Gilboa as saying she would not donate blood to an elderly leukemia patient because he is not a vegan, nor to an 8-year-old cancer patient, stating that if a meat-eater dies, that means “less suffering.”

She also reportedly called a social media user a “gay piece of crap” and referred to Russians as “disgusting.”

Channel 12 also reported that Gilboa has a history of confrontations with opposition activists and referred to demonstrators who called for the release of hostages in Gaza as “whores.” Gilboa is related to freed hostage Guy Gilboa-Dalal.