Incitement in the Galatians: "I would like to dilute the Haredim, but the taste must be disgusting""

May 6, 2014   

Incitement against the ultra-Orthodox is pervasive:  Last night, Independence Day night, shortly before 2:30 a.m., serious statements were made on the IDF Radio station against the Haredi public. On the program "Independence at Night" on the military radio station, hosted by Noa Zinman and Tamar Amit Yosef, which aired in the "We Don't Want to Sleep Independence" slot, the program's panel members discussed animal cruelty and vegetarianism. One of the participants responded: "As far as I'm concerned, I would really eat human flesh, human flesh, with pleasure because animals are not meant to be harmed. Let's thin out the population, that would be great." The presenter interjected: "Who, for example? Because it's a terribly problematic combination, it has to be someone you want to kill and you don't like them, and b: someone who doesn't put you off eating?" The panelist replied: "That's exactly the paradox, because the people whose population I would most like to thin out are the Haredim, but they probably have the most disgusting taste, it must be terribly stinky." "Because it's kosher," Man Dho commented, and his predecessor agreed: "Kosher is the most disgusting, kosher restaurants are disgusting restaurants." All this while the presenter asked him to clarify things and even commented: "They stink, because they eat Kneidlach?" A few minutes later, during which songs were played, the presenter tried to clarify: "In the name of the Independents at Night system, as if what we said earlier about Haredim eating, we didn't really mean it. It was all in humor." Response from Udi Yerushalmi - Commander-in-Chief and spokesman for the IDF: "The things that were said on the program were not said at the behest of Galei Tzahal and were out of place. Immediately after the words were said, broadcaster Galtz clarified that this was a humorous and satirical program and that there was no intention to harm the Haredi public. We apologize to anyone who found themselves offended.".