Two serious acts of incitement occurred on Independence Day. In one case, a woman resident of Yitzhar wrote on the town's internal forum that she supports throwing stones at soldiers in certain cases, even if the stone results in the death of a soldier. In the second case - on the military broadcasting station Galei Tzahal, a participant in the broadcast said, "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 rancid." (The original slurs - H.Z.) .
In one case, the one that took place in Yitzhar, in the internal forum with few participants, a protest arose and participants demanded that the words be deleted. Several of the community leaders were not satisfied with this and forwarded the correspondence to the security authorities.
In the second case, the one that took place on the popular broadcasting station, some of the participants were heard giggling. The presenter, who hosted the hilarious broadcast, asked the pearl issuer to clarify whether he thought "they stink because they eat kneadle?" and contributed her own to the dirty racist discourse. A few minutes later and after a break for music, one of the two presenters explained that the recipe offered earlier, based on Haredi meat, was only in humor. "We didn't really intend (to eat Haredi). A. Not kosher. B. Not practical. C. Really, it's all in humor," the Galatsniki smiled at her on the broadcast.
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I mean, you can relax, Haredim, we didn't really intend to dilute you by eating your flesh. Go back to the Gemara books. The settler's lawyer also reassured us that it was only in theory - only in her case, we refused to relax.
The incitement of the settler from Yitzhar shook the country, and rightly so. The media was outraged, the woman was arrested, and condemnation was heard from one end of the country to the other.
The other inflammatory remarks, those of the idiot on the radio station with the contribution of the presenter, were passed over in a thin silence. A Google search reveals that ten online media outlets dealt with the issue – 9 of them are ultra-Orthodox and only one, nrg, general. A member of the radio station, Omer Ben Rubi, went on air on the ultra-Orthodox radio station in a high-pitched voice, as if it were some unfortunate slip of the tongue that could be settled with a direct apology to the offended, and not poor moral standards on one of the most important broadcasting stations in the country - which should be strongly condemned. In general, a member of the radio station defended himself, it's not us – it's some guest on the broadcast who is not a member of the station. We were comforted.
There is no point in even suggesting to readers the usual exercise in such cases – replacing the word 'Haredim' with 'Arabs', for example, and 'Kneidlach' with 'hummus' – in order to understand the seriousness of the bland humor at the military station – and this without diminishing the seriousness of the settler's reading.
But it is impossible not to compare and wonder about the double standards displayed by the media. It is impossible not to wonder whether the press exaggerated the shock shown by the incitement from Yitzhar (and no, it did not) or whether it is exercising a light-headed and outrageous forbearance towards the Jaffa scandal (and it is indeed forgiving and indifferent) because those racists are "ours", "our friends" from the reserve unit, the mother station of the entire Israeli media.
• Chaim Zisowitz, former host of 'Media Portfolio''
