Meretz's candidate, deputy minister and former general Yair Golan, to put it mildly, is not the most pleasant person in the world when it comes to public statements.
"Subhuman", "malignant disease", a hint to the Bedouin that "they will do what is necessary in the field" and other gems are just a small part of the blatant, lashing and flammable lexicon that Golan distributes in almost every interview and on social networks.
The former deputy chief of staff is in fact on a constant state of provocation, whether in uniform or in civilian clothes, and he is becoming an officer from week to week.
Problematic theories concerning the right in general, and Israeli society in particular, are not foreign to the Golan.
The most memorable of all is, of course, the one in which, while wearing the rank of general and on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, he practically compared the citizens of the Jewish state to the Nazi citizens of Germany in the 1930s.
This is during a "pedagogical" and absurd speech in which the deputy commander of the army preached morality to his citizens.
But this week, Golan managed to surpass even the rich provocative resume he holds, when he issued one of the most absurd, detached and approachable statements ever made by an Israeli politician.
Such a delusional statement that many on social media found it hard to believe it was not a fake:
"The very expression on the left is a diminutive phrase ... it's a bit like calling dark skin black in the US.
"This is something that is meant to humiliate and trample on, we need to fight it, so I think I need to lead Meretz," Golan said in an interview with Zaman Israel.
In the mind of someone who is nominated, at least on his own behalf, for the leadership of a party in Israel, there is a parallel line between a word that represents slavery and oppression at the highest level imaginable and the nickname "leftist."
The word "Niger" in the United States is actually banned from use because of the horrific historical baggage that accompanies it and the shame it carries as a word used by slaves and slave traders. The latter as a politician, and was denounced by his own camp.
But beyond the seriousness of things, the real reason for Golan's historical and sociological statements has also been revealed: he suffers from extraordinary historical ignorance.
Only a historically unburdened mind can think that there is even a faint resemblance between forced and unpaid cotton pickers, a race that suffered abuse and persecution and was defined as property, and a white champion in reserve and his audience, living in a free country, often in prosperity and wealth.
The details of slavery in the United States are not limited to historians. In the limited historical knowledge of Lieutenant Colonel Golan, a leftist who was offended by a nickname said in Habima Square or on Twitter is likened to a black man burned alive in Alabama, or his family murdered in Mississippi.
If until now it was possible to dismiss the process speech by saying that Golan simply sees Nazi Jews, now it turns out that he probably knew nothing about the Holocaust, as he does not know half a thing about slavery, the meaning of the nickname Niger and its roots.
Only ignorance can consistently produce such absurd statements, thus distort and corrupt the world of concepts and nicknames, and cause us all embarrassment that Golan was once called a deputy chief of staff.
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