Netanyahu Needs to Stop Making Unforced Errors. Here's How.
On Wednesday, Riyad Mansour, the official Palestinian representative at the United Nations, falsely accused Israel of stealing organs from the bodies of Palestinian terrorists. The claim echoed the anti-Semitic blood libel of the Middle Ages, which charged Jews with murdering gentile children to use their blood for Passover matzoh. But you won’t hear much about this egregious anti-Semitic outburst in the media. That’s because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has once again commandeered their coverage and made himself the story—and not in a good way.
Just hours after the U.N. incident, it was announced that Dr. Ran Baratz, a conservative Israeli academic, had been tapped as the country’s new director of public diplomacy. Reporters quickly dove into the past statements of this purported media maven, and what they found was not encouraging. On his Facebook page, Baratz had accused President Obama of expressing “modern anti-Semitism,” suggested Secretary of State John Kerry was not “a person whose mental age exceeds 12,” and openly mocked Israeli President Reuven Rivlin as “a marginal figure” who could be “sent in a paraglider” to Syria.
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