Shame on Shas

letter published from Rabbi Shalom Gold

Shame on Shas

It was reported in the Jerusalem Post of October 30 (page 10) in an article with regard to the latest US administration's ugly personal attacks on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that Naftali Bennett, Yuli Edelstein and others protested the insulting remarks. Yuli Edelstein said, "When the Prime Minister of Israel is insulted in this way all Israelis are insulted." Since then many political figures in the United States have joined the chorus of condemnation.

The article then says – please hold onto your seats: "Shas MK Yacov Margi, however, said that Netanyahu earned the insult from the US, and that there is no reason to complain about the Americans." Of this the Medrash in Shir Hashirim says, "Crush the mouths of those who speak ill of Israel."

Shame on Margi. When a fellow Jew is attacked we are all attacked. How does he dare give credence to ugly remarks made against our and his fellow Jewish Prime Minister? Has he lost all sense of decency and propriety. Does Margi have a right to serve as a Member of Knesset?

We call on all outraged fellow Jews to protest this disgusting display of Jewish anti-Semitism. We call on the Shas leadership to disavow this statement; to censure Yaakov Margi; to issue a public retraction; to make public an apology to the Prime Minister – immediately.

Please send your protest to the Shas e-mails listed here.

The main Shas email address: p@shas.org.il

Aryeh Deri's email: aderey@knesset.gov.il

Yacov Margi's email: ymargi@knesset.gov.il

Rabbi Boruch Taub, Rabbi Emeritus of Beit Avraham Yosef of Thornhill, presently in Netanya, joins me in this protest and request.

Shavua Tov,

Sholom Gold

Har Nof

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