Ministerial group against racism mulls action against chief rabbi for calling black people 'monkeys'
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A governmental department for combating racism attached to the Justice Ministry has announced that it is examining ways to address internationally-condemned statements made Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, in which he described black people as “monkeys” and referred to them in a public sermon as “kushi”, a pejorative term for black people in Israel.
Head of the department, attorney Awaka Zana, said that “if the comments were indeed made, they are extremely serious and they justify taking a variety of steps against the rabbi on an administrative, disciplinary or even criminal level since it turns out that they constitute incitement to racism.”
