It was only a matter of time before Yoav Eliassi ("The Shadow") also addressed the video that is now spreading online like wildfire in which a young ultra-Orthodox resident of Hod Hasharon is attacked during a bus ride by a secular passenger who hurled insults at him for his dress and alleged evasion of military service. In a particularly angry post on Monday, Eliassi strongly criticized Israeli society, and also pointed an accusing finger at opposition Knesset members.
"Israel is the most anti-Semitic country in the world," Eliassi wrote in a post, to which he attached a video in which the young ultra-Orthodox man is seen and heard having a heated argument with one of the passengers. "Imagine a video like this in German," he asked his followers.
"In Hod Hasharon, an ultra-Orthodox guy is shamed shamefully and humiliated by a racist autoanti-Semite who shouts at him, 'Go make an army.' What she doesn't know is that he's a captain in an elite cruiser," he clarified.
Later he turned to the help of the masses in locating the passenger who lashed out at the ultra-Orthodox man. "I ask anyone who has information about the autoanti-Semite to talk to me privately." "This is the result of the hatred and division instilled by the opposition! Goebbels (Nazi war criminal) would be proud of you," he attacked.
Journalist Yinon Magal also addressed the viral video today, posting a story on the subject to his Instagram page where he wrote. "I didn't understand. And if the ultra-Orthodox didn't serve in the army, should he get off the bus? Does he need to explain why he wears a kippah? Do you realize what's going on here?" asked Magal angrily over a photo of the young ultra-Orthodox man starring in the video in military uniform.
Shas Chairman Rabbi Aryeh Deri also responded to the hate video on the bus in Hod Hasharon: "We are not ashamed of our kippah. We are not ashamed of our wigs and we are not ashamed of our identity. We are proud to have been privileged to live as Jews in the Land of Israel. It is the instigators and detractors who should be ashamed."
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