Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu waves to his supporters. | Maya Alleruzzo/AP Photo
Antisemitism is “the oldest hatred,” but the net is making it worse, Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday.
“It’s the oldest hatred, arsenic I say, 1 of the oldest hatreds of humanity. It was incorrect then, it’s incorrect now,” Netanyahu told big Chuck Todd connected NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “But it’s got an other beingness astir apt successful the United States and successful different countries by the property of the internet.”
The premier minister-designate was responding to a question astir caller behaviour by erstwhile President Donald Trump, who dined with achromatic nationalist Nick Fuentes and rapper Ye precocious past month.
Both Fuentes and Ye, amended known arsenic Kanye West, person made a litany of antisemitic statements. Other figures, including hoops prima Kyrie Irving, person besides recently promoted antisemitism.
“There are many, galore blessings of the net age, but it comes besides with a curse. And the curse is polarization,” Netanyahu said. “In the lawsuit of antisemitism, it’s the melding, the fusion of the antisemitism from the utmost extremist near with the utmost extremist right.”
Netanyahu, who leads a politically blimpish conjugation that is acceptable to instrumentality to power, called Trump’s meal “unacceptable,” adjacent arsenic helium expressed enactment for Trump’s argumentation decisions arsenic president. Leaders are perpetually “balancing interests with values,” helium said.
“I anticipation helium sees his mode to staying retired of it and condemning it,” Netanyahu said of Trump.
Asked whether he’d enactment Trump arsenic president, Netanyahu said he’d “deal with anyone who’s elected president.” The premier minister-designate, who is Israel’s longest-serving premier minister, has a chiseled transportation to American governmental culture, having attended precocious schoolhouse successful Cheltenham, Pa., and assemblage astatine MIT.
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