Israel’s ambassador to the US: NYT Editors are “preparing the next genocide”
Yechiel Leiter said at a #Chabad (Jewish cult with a network of missionaries operating world wide) conference in New Jersey that The New York Times editors’ Gaza coverage amounted to a “blood libel” and was “preparing the next genocide” against Jews. He said he had met 21 editors and disputed their claims that #Israel was committing genocide or deliberately starving Gazans.
[…] “There is no difference between what is being done to us today and what was done to our grandparents in the ghettos of Europe 80 years ago. This is a blood libel. It is extremely serious. We must know how to recognize what the enemy is and who the enemy is. This is not just another antisemitic remark. Please understand: this is a blood libel. And a blood libel will cost human lives.”
https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/r1z0x0r6fl#autoplay
#Ynet omits the fact Leiter is associated with Israel’s far right and the illegal settlement movement. In his youth, he was involved with Meir Kahane’s Jewish Defense League, a US-based far-right organization later designated terrorist by US authorities; reporting says he immigrated to Israel alongside other JDL-affiliated activists.