Jan 31, 2023
Israeli rabbi under fire for calling black people 'monkeys' The chief rabbi of the Sephardic community used two slurs in his speech. -- Israel’s Sephardi chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef is the subject of sharp criticism following his sermon when he compared black people to monkeys.
Footage posted by news site Ynet. In the video, the rabbi talks about black people in the streets of America whose parents are white, then calls the black son of a white couple a monkey. He also uses the Hebrew word "kushi" to describe black people, which is widely considered a racial slur in Israel.