Tennis legend Martina Navratilova seemed to be disgusted with a video that appeared to indicate a woman telling a rabbi to “kill yourself” if that they had an issue with “free Palestine.”
The altercation happened in Occasions Sq. in New York Metropolis. The woman within the video says she’s 11 years previous and lives in Canada. The woman or the supposed members of the family that she was with didn’t seem to have any regret over what she instructed Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who took the video and posted it on X.
The clip obtained greater than 7.3 million views because it was posted at round 10:34 a.m. ET on Sunday.
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Tennis legend Martina Navratilova seemed to be disgusted with a video that appeared to indicate a woman telling a rabbi to “kill yourself” if that they had an issue with “free Palestine.” (Artur Widak/NurPhoto by way of Getty Photographs/File)
Navratilova was amongst those that remarked on the clip.
“Pretty sad. And the mother is laughing. Pathetic,” Navratilova wrote.
Boteach offered context for the video in a submit on X.
“An ‘11-year-old’ Muslim girl with her family walked over to me in Times Square and told me to kill myself because I’m a Jew. I am not making this up. You must watch this,” he wrote. “They then had their small child kick me to humiliate me [while] their daughter continued to say that I should kill myself. Identify who these people are.”
“Also, other passersby yelled at me that she’s white, and I should kill myself as a Jew. All of this happened right in the middle of New York City the night before Christmas. [Antisemitism] is becoming unbelievably dangerous and deadly in the United States and around the world. We must fight this disease.”
Navratilova was amongst those that remarked on the video clip in a social media submit: “Pretty sad. And the mother is laughing. Pathetic.” (Sarah Stier/Getty Photographs/File)
The most recent video underscored the rise of antisemitism within the U.S. and across the globe following the Oct. 7 Hamas terror assault in Israel, which resulted within the demise of greater than 1,200 folks and the taking of round 240 hostages.
Israel declared warfare on Hamas within the aftermath of the fear assault. Hundreds extra have died for the reason that warfare began whereas Israel has bristled at requires a cease-fire. The Israeli navy has stated that months of preventing lie forward in southern Gaza.
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On Sunday, Israeli Battle Cupboard Minister Benny Gantz stated Israel was preventing for its “existence” amid its warfare with Hamas in a Christmas message.
In a submit on X, Gantz stated Christians in Israel and around the globe share an “unbreakable bond” and a friendship “that has been a bright light in the darkness.”
“We promise to continue protecting this Holy Land that we all cherish, the religious freedom to worship freely in it, and the people that make this sacred place so special,” he wrote on X.
On Sunday, Israeli Battle Cupboard Minister Benny Gantz stated Israel was preventing for its “existence” amid its warfare with Hamas in a Christmas message. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Occasions by way of Getty Photographs/File)
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The message got here amid a violent day in Gaza that has seen greater than a dozen Israeli troops killed and dozens of Gazans additionally useless, in keeping with Hamas’ well being ministry.
Fox Information’ Louis Casiano and the Related Press contributed to this report.
