Last year chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef made some controversial remarks, which we only found out about now. It’s been reported that during a sermon he compared “negroes” to monkeys. Specifically, he’s reported to have said:
“You can’t say a blessing for every negro you see, you go around in the streets of America, every five minutes you will see a Negro. Do you bless him as an ‘exceptional creature?’ So you make it only on a person with a white father and mother. How would you know? Let’s say you know! So they had a monkey as a son, a son like this, so you say the blessing on him.”
Yosef’s reported statement is “very serious” and could “justify various measures like administrative, disciplinary and even criminal against the rabbi, if it turns out they constitute incitement to racism,” Avka Zana, head of a Israeli Justice Ministry unit that combats racism, said.
“The unit will continue following developments and will take all necessary measures to prevent the recurrence of racist remarks like this in the future by state officials and public servants,” the unit said.
Apparently not even to this date the rabbi has apologized for his slandering even after the Israeli government has threatened him with criminal action.
Rabbi Yosef is quoting the Talmud to back his controversial claims, saying that according to Berakhot 58b:
R. Joshua b. Levi said: On seeing pock-marked persons one says: Blessed be He who makes strange creatures. An objection was raised: If one sees a negro, a very red or very white person, a hunchback, a dwarf or a dropsical person, he says: Blessed be He who makes strange creatures. If he sees one with an amputated limb, or blind, or flatheaded, or lame, or smitten with boils, or pock-marked, he says: Blessed be the true Judge! — There is no contradiction; one blessing is said if he is so from birth, the other if he became so afterwards. A proof of this is that he is placed in the same category as one with an amputated limb; this proves it.
In that context, he discussed another blessing mentioned in the same section of the Talmud, which is recited upon seeing an “unusual creature.” The Talmud states that the blessing should be recited when seeing “a black person, a very red or very white person.”
Yosef explained that the Talmud is not referring to an African-American, but a black person born to two white parents but however when referring to African-Americans he used the word kushi, which is the word used by the Talmud but is a pejorative term in modern Hebrew which translates as “negro”.
In response, the rabbi’s office said that he was merely citing the Talmud, which states that the same blessing is recited upon seeing an elephant, a monkey or an ape.
Even the US based Anti-Defamation League slammed Yosef on Tuesday, calling his comments “utterly unacceptable.”
Racially charged comment made by Israeli Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, comparing people of color to "monkeys", is utterly unacceptable. https://t.co/uQRPk7meyl
— ADL (@ADL) March 20, 2018
Yosef has been known to court controversy in his sermons multiple times.
In a sermon delivered in May 2017, he appeared to suggest during his weekly sermon that secular woman behave like animals because they dress immodestly.
Here at the EUTimes, while we do not agree to such slanders like calling entire groups of peoples offensive names, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef is correct to point out that we are different.
Clearly the IQ of Africans is nowhere near white people’s IQs like Israelis, Germans, Swedes, French, etc. but he should point out these differences more politely and civilized after all let’s not forget we’re all living in a leftist world where whites who are right-wingers like Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef are completely forbidden from speaking their mind.
This is a very interesting story here, this should especially be interesting to the Alt-Right in America who say that all problems their country is having is because of “the Jews”. While nobody is denying their power and influence, it seems pretty clear after this story that “the Jews” should not be the Alt Right’s problem, but leftist and liberal ideology in general.
Look, even the ADL is accusing Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef of racism? This is clearly an ideological war and perhaps the Alt-Right should support Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef and try to convert other Jews to his ideology. Maybe that would fix everything up. After all Jews have not always been liberals, this is just a recent thing.
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The rabbi is blessing the blacks. Who would complain?
Hahaha you don’t get it, he said that all blacks are monkeys and they don’t deserve to be blessed but only a black that would come out of two white parents, as an abnormality, deserves a blessing. Technically the rabbi is just quoting the Talmud so if he is racist then so is the Talmud. I am at odds here, my progressive values or my faith and the chief rabbi. Who is right? I must meditate on this and make a choice.