Erekat: Israeli Religious Figure Urging Genocide Of Palestinians

[Purveyor]

By Haaretz Service, The Associated Press and Jack Khoury

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat on Sunday slammed remarks by the spiritual leader of Israel's leading ultra-Orthodox party, who said the Palestinians should "perish", saying that it was paramount to incitement to genocide.

rekat called on the Israeli government to denounce the remarks by Israel's former chief rabbi Ovadia Yosef, and to take action against racist remarks by other elected officials. He also criticized Israel for allowing the incident to pass without condemnation.

Yosef had said during his weekly Shabbat sermon that the Palestinians, namely Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, should perish from the world. Yosef, a founder of the Shas Party, also described Palestinians as evil, bitter enemies of Israel.

"All these evil people should perish from this world ... God should strike them with a plague, them and these Palestinians," Yosef had said.

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[Jim Sagle]

1. This guy's as bad as the Hamas charter, I tell ya.

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[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. When was the last time Erekat denounced something?

[Violet_Crumble]

4. Don't you agree with him that the Israeli govt should denounce a call for genocide?

Y'know what. When someone's first reaction to a call for genocide is to turn around and try to attack the person who's asking for it to be denounced, I find that sort of thinking very disturbing. Even if Erekat has never once in his life denounced anything, it wouldn't make his demand to denounce what that lunatic said any less valid.