Wife of Israeli Interior Minister makes racist tweet

[MohRokTah]

https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/612641812520542208

I won't post her racist joke here, I am just linking to a retweet of it.

[NightWatcher]

1. Feel free to return the billions of $$$ and arms we send you...

[dembotoz]

2. At least it was not the wife of nutty yahoo

But then again after comments this week from trump...maybe there r no standards anymore

[geek tragedy]

3. Racism is very mainstream in Israel.

This is who they are.

[Betty Karlson]

4. The current goverment that is.

On the part of the Labour Party, Kadima, and such, racism is not so prevalent.

It's Likud and its friends where the prejudice has found a welcoming home. As Bill Clinton once said: "Bibi's problem is that he doesn't see Arabs as humans."

[geek tragedy]

5. The racists are the majority faction.

Not only that, but in addition to rightwing anti-Arab racism, there's racism within the Jewish population.

[Betty Karlson]

6. Against Jews of colour, you mean? eom

[BumRushDaShow]

8. Against anyone of color - thus the subject and main point of the OP.

As a sidenote - some of the tweets in that feed attempted to beg that not "everyone" there is like that, which of course would certainly be the truth.

[Betty Karlson]

9. I understood as much.

When you wrote "within the Jewish community", I assumed you alluded to some specific Jew-on-Jew prejudice.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. I didn't write the OP but

there have been many issues regarding the Falasha.

[Betty Karlson]

12. Thank you for that link.

Apparently, religious conversions are complicating matters.

This is the first time I hear about the existence of the Falash Mura, the descendants of Jewish Ethiopians converting to Christianity.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. They just can't help themselves

They live in a bubble world where such expressions are just hilarious, and then when caught, they think "deleting" puts the nefarious genie back into its bottle while simultaneously rolling back time. It's interesting that in that twitter feed, Joan Walsh's handle is popping up in others' tweets, so I expect the way that twitter works, she might have seen this.

[CTBlueboy]

11. Color me shock

Lets see who comes and defends this

[Jamaal510]

13. The sad part of this is

that "joke" isn't even funny. It's just offensive, unoriginal, and corny. This is about as lame as when people call him "Obummer".

[Cha]

14. That was my thought, Jamaal. Not only was it a stupid racist joke .. it was stupid. so twice

as stupid.

Har har.. let's talk about President Obama's skin color.. glad she outed her stupid self.