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Thursday, May 22, 2025
Yair Golan says the government’s rhetoric, not his, fuels antisemitism and attacks on Jews
The Democrats party chief Yair Golan sends condolences to the families of the victims of the US shooting attack that killed two Israeli Embassy workers.
Responding to a far-right minister’s claim that his rhetoric is to blame for the attack, the left-wing leader counters that the discourse of government ministers, including supporters of racist rabbi Meir Kahane, enabled it.
“The government of Kahane Chai” — referring to Kahane’s Kach party that was outlawed in the 1980s — “is the one that fuels antisemitism and hatred of Israel, and the result is unprecedented diplomatic isolation and danger to every Jew at every point on the globe,” Golan asserts.
He vows to replace the government and “restore security to all Jews, in Israel and anywhere around the world.”
The Times of Israel Community.