MK Shelly Yachimovich, a senior member of the center-left Zionist Union faction, blasts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who took to task Deputy IDF Chief of Staff Yair Golan Sunday morning for statements that were seen to compare Israel to Nazi Germany.
Netanyahu, during the weekly cabinet meeting, upbraided Golan, calling his comments on recent social trends in Israel — made during a Holocaust Remembrance Day event last week — “outrageous” and asserting that they “cheapened” the memory of the Holocaust.
Zionist Union lawmaker Shelly Yachimovich at the Knesset on June 8, 2015 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Yachimovich, for her part, says it’s “absurd” for Netanyahu, “the most brutal cheapener of the Holocaust,” to accuse the deputy chief of staff of cheapening the Holocaust.
The prime minister, she says in a statement, has “co-opted the memory of the Holocaust for his own political needs endless times,” and his attack on Golan is “cynicism for cynicism’s sake.”
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