[ April 18, 2024 ]
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely slammed Jewish Americans for basically being insensitive to the realities of being a Jew and living in the face of terror attacks in the Jewish state.
She said U.S. Jews “don’t have children serving as soldiers,” don’t have children and family members facing terror attackers on a daily basis and therefore, don’t have a full understanding of what it feels like to live under Jewish state conditions. She also criticized Jews in America for politicizing the Western Wall issue.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, shortly after, criticized Hotovely.
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Jerusalem Online has more:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the offensive remarks about Reform and Conservative Jews made by Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely during an interview with i24. “Diaspora Jews are dear to us and they are an inseparable part of our people,” Netanyahu said. “There is no room for such attacks and her remarks do not reflect the State of Israel’s position.” During the interview, Hotovely criticized Jewish Americans and said that they are distancing themselves from Israel, adding that they are “too young to remember how it feels to be a Jewish person without a Jewish state.”
When asked about the growing rift between Israel and many Jewish communities in the U.S., Hotovely said that American Jews fail to understand “the complexities of the region.” She added that they are “people that never send their children to fight for their country.”
“Most of the Jews don’t have children serving as soldiers, going to the Marines, going to Afghanistan, going to Iraq,” she said. “Most of them are having quite convenient lives. They don’t feel how it feels to be attacked by rockets, and I think part of it is to actually experience what Israel is dealing with on a daily basis.”
Hotovely also commented on the Western Wall issue, accusing American Jews of turning the holy site into a political matter. “Most of the time it’s empty,” she said in regard to the egalitarian prayer site. “And the reason it’s empty, if you’re asking me, it’s not because they don’t like the arrangement, it’s empty because most of the time those people are not even interested in going to the Kotel.”
Director of the Reform Movement in Israel Rabbi Gilad Kariv commented on the interview: “The outrageous statements made by Deputy Minister Hotovely did not come out of nowhere. It is the direct continuation of the damaging behavior of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toward the Diaspora Jewry.” Kariv added that while Netanyahu’s statement rebuking Hotovely is appreciated, it is not enough. “The time has come for these things to be accompanied by actions and not just statements in English,” he urged.
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40 Comments
6 years ago
This writer stands with the accurate comments of Deputy Foreign MInister Hotovely.
PM Netanyahu’s internationalist leanings are showing. American “Diaspora” Jews live in an American comfort zone.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mark Steiner
They are honestly too “sheltered”, in my opinion. They have not see nearly as much of the real world outside America as they should.
6 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
Well, one of the jokes from here out West “in Ar-riz-zo-nee” about New Yorkers in general, is this: many still think we’re fighting Cowboys and Indians out here …
West of the Hudson is No Man’s Land. West of the Mississippi – the Empty Quarter.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mark Steiner
Thanks for a fine testimony Dorrie. Hope other read and understand. Too many have chosen to ignore Holocaust details or flat out don’t care.
This writer is a supporter of ACLJ. Jay Sekulow is as good as they come.
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6 years ago
Pardon the Al Franken-like comment, but Deputy Foreign Minister Hotovely certainly is Hot and Lovely….and I believe her comments to be quite true.
6 years ago
Reply to
anyonebutmarkeyforsenate
I agree! She is hot and lovely…hence her name….and her comments appear to be quite true.
6 years ago
Indeed. WHY MOST American Jews keep voting for the Democrat party…..which is against Israel and FOR Muslim Multiculturalism…..is beyond me.
6 years ago
Reply to
Richard Harris
My mostly Catholic family has always voted Dem0rat. There have literally been generations of Dem0rats. If the Dem0RAT party has put up Idi Amin for POTUS they would’ve dutifully voted for him.
6 years ago
Reply to
Richard Harris
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6 years ago
Most American Jews and Rabbis have betrayed Israel.
6 years ago
Benjamin Netanyahu probably believes the same thing but has to play politics.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
Don’t be too disappointed. It’s a strategy game. He could be confusing and outmaneuvering his opponents.
6 years ago
Although, she brings out some valid arguments and that liberals are sympathetic to Muslims in the U.S. We don’t have a draft, although, I’m in favor of its return. China and Russia have a daft. However, we live in a different culture than Israeli Jews and she was better off keeping her mouth shut.
6 years ago
Reply to
Stephen Honig
The US used to have a mandatory draft. I think it was for 2 years of service in the National Guard.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamIsTyranny
Six years. Six months active duty and five and a half years in the reserves. Are you from the U.S.?
6 years ago
Too many American Jews (certainly not ALL) are of the liberal persuasion and thus are demo, liberal socialists. Netanyahu is their prime enemy!! Israel is a country that battles against HUGE odds and seems to come out on top. These Amer Jews have no concept of what life in Israel must be like. That Netanyahu shld disagree with Hotovely’s comments is mind-boggling to me…..
6 years ago
Good for Hotovely!
– Blast away!
6 years ago
Political stupidity isn’t just a Jewish thing
– it’s just more dangerous for Jews
– tiny global population
– need to stick together
6 years ago
Feyert dreck (Horse s..t). MK Deputy Minister Hotovely is correct. The greater abomination is the attitude of Conservative and Reform Jews – she could speak of in more detailed terms if she wasn’t sickened by them. PM Netanyahu must be more diplomatic, unfortunately. I’ve witnessed far greater kinships between liberal Jews and the Linda Sarsours of the anti-Semitic world than ones with the stalwart Pamela Geller advocates of free speech and human rights; who literally put their lives on the line, while the Kuni Lemels among us languish in their JINO/LGBTQ vagina costumes and join BDS rallies. Anyone have anything that’ll top that for disgustingly low?
6 years ago
I think all Jews in America should go to Israel , The main stream Jews are the only thing stopping world peace….. All war in the last 100 years is the result of Jews.
6 years ago
Reply to
ties
Do you really believe that Jews are responsible for the amount of terrorism and jihad that has been plaguing our societies for the past few decades?
6 years ago
Reply to
ties
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha, the delusion is strong in this one:
http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=710
6 years ago
Reply to
ties
sorry you are so brain washed//// Religion has started more wars then anything….. For 100’s of years one form of Christian killed another type of Christian and most torchere devises were invented and used by the churches
6 years ago
Reply to
ties
Sorry wrong again I am a Russian Orthodox Christian ,,, But I can tell the truth….And see the truth,,, Churches have killed more people then any thing ,,,sorry just a fact was big into torchere
6 years ago
Reply to
ties
Russian huh? Any relatives that perished in Stalin’s atheist and state-enabled famines or who disappeared into the atheist gulags and were never heard of again?
6 years ago
All Jews around the world should be realizing that Islamic jihad is the greatest threat to Israel’s society and to the West itself.
6 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
I went to a very liberal university for the past four years, and the Jews there were extremely left-wing, one woman told me outright she supported boycotting Israel.
6 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
I sure hope not! Although there are Jews who do seem to be more anti-Israel these days.
