Critics slam Netanyahu’s son for using antisemitic themes in post
Pay for his mental therapist, not his security detail, says Barak
On the eve of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Latin America, his son Yair Netanyahu posted a meme on Facebook depicting space lizards and Freemasons – invoking antisemitic imagery.
Yair Netanyahu, who goes by Yair Hun on Facebook, grabbed the image from a Facebook page that uses crude – and often hateful – humor to combat the Israeli Left. The page incorporates Pepe the frog, who has become a symbol of the alt-right.
In one of the pages, Pepe is shown making cookies of his own excrement, which he serves to a supporter of the left-leaning Jewish movement Zehut.
In Yair Netanyahu’s post, Jewish-Hungarian-American millionaire George Soros is depicted holding a fishing rod with planet Earth on the hook as his bait. This captures the attention of a reptilian-like figure who, in turn, holds up a fishing rod with the occult symbol of a triangle containing a square with a circle, which attracts a character that is meant to be a Freemason, or Illuminati member of some sort.
That person holds up a fishing rod with cash on its hook, which catches the attention of former prime minister and noted Benjamin Netanyahu-critic Ehud Barak.
Barak holds a fishing rod with a ballot for Eretz Hadasha, a political party that sought to rid Israeli politics of corruption and was headed by Eldad Yaniv. Yaniv is presented as being drawn to the ballot held by Barak, and is holding a fishing rod of his own – this one with a tray full of food.
To this new bait, a new character is attracted. Meni Naftali, the former caretaker of the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem, gazes at it intently. The whole image is titled “The Food Chain.”
David Icke, an English conspiracy theorist, is often pointed to as the creator of the concept that Earth’s human elite are not elected or determined by wealth or power, but simply composed of lizards from outer space.
Yaniv worked as a political consultant for Barak for years until the two of them parted ways. Yaniv has often described feeling uneasy with what he was doing in his years working behind the scenes of Israeli politics. He claims that Israeli politics is tainted by a powerful relationship between big money and the people in power. He is very active in various protests and legal attempts to remove Benjamin Netanyahu from office.
Molad was the organization that recently published a list of claims on Facebook about the personal conduct of Yair Netanyahu. That caused Yaniv to strike back against Molad and other sons of previous prime-ministers.
It is unclear at the moment whether the image was meant as some kind of joke, or if the son of the current leader of the State of Israel subscribes to antisemitic conspiracy theories.
On Twitter, Barak asked, “Is this what the boy hears at home? Is it genetics or his very own mental illness? No matter, at any rate, we should pay for his mental therapist and not his security detail and personal driver.”
Opposition leader Isaac Herzog responded to the Tweet by stating, “Every Jew should feel revulsion and shame this cartoon, [in the style of] the pages of [Nazi newspaper] Der Stürmer, that came out of the home of the prime minister and embraced by antisemites. Delete it, apologize, speak out against it.”
David Duke, big-name white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan leader, tweeted support for Yair Netanyahu, saying the prime minister’s son posts a meme suggesting Soros is controlling the world: “Meme rife with antisemitic themes.”