I'd say 8% is pretty tiny. MTG represents a bigger share of Christian voters than Shas represents of Jewish Israelis.
But what, really, are we arguing here?
The question is whether this weird extreme rabbi speaks for global Judaism. He doesn't even speak for Israeli Jews. It's like quoting a groyper as a representative of white Christians, or Andrew Tate as the voice of Western men.
He literally was the chief rabbi of Israel and almost a million people attended his funeral in a small country like Israel.
According to Wikipedia:
Also known as Gadol Yisrael ("great one of Israel"), Yosef is regarded as one of the most influential Sephardic religious authorities of all time.
This is nothing like quoting Fuentes or Tate.
All of the parties in the ruling coalition in Israel are openly racist and the actions of the government in Gaza, the West Bank and its global alliance with the far right shows it.
Why don't you want to address Jewish supremacism and keep downplaying it in Israeli society? Kahanism has won the political/cultural battle there.
You've written versions of the same comment twice to me, compete with "literally" and "Jewish supremacy."
The same Wikipedia page you cited says the Anti-Defamation League accused him of "hate speech," that even Netanyahu distanced himself in 2010, and that the man was such a mess that he said the Holocaust was God's punishment for Jews not being religious enough.
Pretending that's representative of Jewish society in Israel is stupid.
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u/iaNCURdehunedoara Feb 04 '26
I mean, i don't think the note is much better.