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Minister’s wife sorry for racist Obama joke
Judy Shalom Nir-Mozes writes on Twitter: ‘Do u know what Obama coffee is? Black and weak’; swiftly deletes post
Tamar Pileggi is a breaking news editor at The Times of Israel.
Judy Shalom Nir-Mozes, the wife of Interior Minister Silvan Shalom, was berated on social media for racism Sunday after tweeting a joke about US President Barack Obama.
Hundreds of the former UNICEF Israel chief and popular radio show host’s 75,000 followers expressed outrage when Nir-Mozes posted: “Do u know what Obama coffee is? Black and weak.”
Within minutes, the post garnered hundreds of comments, some of them calling Nir-Mozes “arrogant,” a “disgrace” and “explicitly racist.”
One user wrote Nir-Mozes’s tweet was even more offensive in light of the racially motivated massacre of nine African American parishioners in a South Carolina church last week.
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Nir-Mozes swiftly removed the tweet and issued a number of apologies. “I apologize, that was a stupid joke somebody told me,” she wrote.
Later, she apologized to the US president directly and tried to offer reassurances that she was not racist.
President Obama I shouldnt have written the inappropriate joke I heard. I like people no matter about their race and religion.
— ג׳ודי מוזס Judy Mozes (@JudyMozes) June 21, 2015
Adopting a more lighthearted tone as she continued her online damage control, in another tweet Nir-Mozes wrote that she hoped her husband wouldn’t divorce her over the social media uproar.
Sorry if I caused any offence to anyone. I hope I will stay married when my husband will land and hear what I did.
— ג׳ודי מוזס Judy Mozes (@JudyMozes) June 21, 2015
Last month, Silvan Shalom was appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to lead negotiations with the Palestinians and to oversee strategic dialogue with the United States.
In a separate incident last month, Nir-Mozes was accused of trolling Obama soon after the president launched his personal Twitter account.
In that tweet, the MK’s wife wrote “@POTUS well come, I hope u ‘ll write from The hurt of barack, and not from the head of Rrsedent Obama. Kisses from israel.”
That tweet was also deleted shortly after, and Nir-Mozes later denied having written it. However, journalist Tal Schneider took a screenshot of the tweet and noted that it came from her account.
Schneider also pointed out one of the typos — that Nir-Mozes likely meant to write “heart” and not “hurt.”
