New York Daily News

Bibi’s boy goes full anti-Semite

- BY JASON SILVERSTEI­N

THE SON OF Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mortified the country’s political leaders — and won the approval of white supremacis­ts — when he posted an anti-Semitic cartoon Sunday on Facebook.

Yair Netanyahu, 26, appeared to post the meme as a sarcastic defense against criticism of his father’s leadership.

The crude cartoon (below) showed billionair­e activist George Soros dangling planet Earth in front of a giant lizard figure, a common internet symbol for mysterious figures who run the world from afar.

The lizard, in turn, dangles an illuminati symbol over a stereotypi­cal drawing of a conniving Jewish man.

Soros, a Hungarian-American Jew, is an outspoken critic of Israel.

Yair Netanyahu (below right) captioned the photo in Hebrew as “The food chain,” implying there are nefarious forces secretly orchestrat­ing opposition to his father.

The meme is a variation of an image that circulates on neo-Nazi and white supremacis­t websites.

The far-right crowd was delighted to see Netanyahu’s son paying it forward. “Netanyahu’s son posts a meme suggesting (((Soros))) is controllin­g the world: ‘Meme rife with anti-Semitic themes,’” former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke wrote, using a three-parenthesi­s symbol that white supremacis­ts use online to single out Jews.

The neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website praised Yair Netanyahu as a “total bro” who posted an “awesome meme blaming the Jews for bringing down his Jew father.”

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