Facebook suspends Netanyahu’s son for anti Muslim posts
Facebook has banned the son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for 24 hours after he posted anti-Muslim and antiPalestinian messages.
Yair Netanyahu, 27, confirmed on Twitter that he had been banned from Facebook after calling for an Israel free of Muslims. Arab Muslims make up about 20 per cent of Israel’s population of eight million.
“There will not be peace here until all the Jews leave the land of Israel or all the Muslims leave the land of Israel. I prefer the second option,” he wrote.
“Do you know where there are no terror attacks? In Iceland and Japan,” Yair said in another post. “Coincidentally, there’s also no Muslim population there.”
The posts were removed, but Mr Netanyahu continued to put up more about Muslims and Palestinians.
After a shooting attack in the West Bank that left two soldiers dead, he posted for Israel to “avenge the deaths” of the soldiers.
“There will never be peace with those monsters in the form of men that have called themselves ‘Palestinians’ since 1964,” he wrote.
He has long been a publicrelations nightmare for his father, who is engulfed in several corruption cases. This year, recordings of Yair outside a strip club in Tel Aviv from two years earlier showed him making derogatory remarks about women.
The Israeli leader was forced to apologise on behalf of his son, saying he had made the comment “under the influence of alcohol and has since apologised for them”.
Worse for Mr Netanyahu, his son appeared to point to corruption.
Yair complained to his friend, the son of an energy millionaire, that he would not lend him a small sum of money, despite his father, the Israeli Prime Minister, arranging “$20 billion for your father and you’re crying over 400 shekels for me”.
He has also previously called left-wing Israelis “traitors” on his Facebook page and has even posted a picture of George Soros with the suggestion that he was secretly in control of the world.
Far-right Americans hailed the post against the Jewish businessman, prompting further criticism of Mr Netanyahu’s son.