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Sephardi Jewish leader slams Sara Netanyahu for inquisition comparison
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAshley Perry, President of Reconectar, an organization that seeks to reconnect the descendants of Spanish and Portuguese Jewish communities with Israel and the Jewish world, has objected to Sara Netanyahu’s comparison between her husband’s legal woes and the Portuguese Inquisition.
“These comments are deplorable and demonstrate a contempt for Jewish suffering. I would hope that Mrs. Netanyahu upon reflection would apologize for this inappropriate and insensitive analogy,” Perry, a Sephardi descendant of Jews who suffered at the hands of the Portuguese Inquisition, tells the Times of Israel.
“These comments are sadly reflective of a minimization of historic Sephardi persecution,” he adds.
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