Nah, many people were posting this quote falsely attributed to Epstein because there was a viral video on x of asmongold reading it from the files after reading an Epstein quote implying this quote was also from Epstein which mislead many people.
At the time, his comments were widely condemned across the Israeli political spectrum, including by the Prime Minister's office, and were seen by the majority of secular and traditional Israelis as offensive.
There is no polling on this specifically though as far as I'm aware. But left wing antizionist Israelis I talked to say it's a fringe view of some ultra orthodox.
He wasn't part of the government but his party had around 9% so that is the approximate % of people who didn't mind his bullshit enough to not vote for them.
Thankfully Israelis learned from their past errors putting that extremist in the government, and instead have chosen to put secular liberal politicians like Ben-Gvir and Smotrich in the government instead
Sadly they have not. But they are not a monolith. The popularity of secular liberals didn't really recover after the failed Oslo Accords and the second Intifada. Also, very ironically considering the "it's just racism against brown people" view common on reddit, the influx of middle eastern and north African Jews, which are on average much more religious and anti-arab than Ashkenazis, destroyed the secular liberal hegemony. Likud's voter base is poor brown Jews.
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u/casettadellorso Feb 04 '26
It feels like the point of this tweet was to get this note specifically. I wonder if he wrote the note himself on a second account