Yediot writer calls U.S. expats in Israel stupid following Glick’s entry into politics
Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick. (photo credit: Courtesy)
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Americans move to Israel because they are too incompetent to get decent jobs otherwise, Yediot Aharonot columnist and Blazer magazine editor Raanan Shaked implied after former Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick announced her entry into politics on the Hayemin Hehadash list.
“Caroline Glick? Really Naftali [Bennett] and Ayelet [Shaked]?” the journalist asked in a tweet directed to Hayamin Hehadash’s leaders. “You really think that there is some electoral force to the always-amusing sub-stream of scattered Isramericans that came here from their homeland – where there is a doubt if they would have gotten a job that doesn’t includes the question ‘do you want fries with that?’ – in order to be Daniella Weiss with an accent? Nu, good luck to you.”
קרולין גליק? באמת, נפתלי ואיילת? אתם באמת מניחים שיש איזה כוח אלקטורלי לתת-הזרם המשעשע תמיד של ישראמריקאים מחפופים שהגיעו לכאן ממולדתם – שבה ספק אם היו משיגים ג’וב שאינו כולל את השאלה “תרצה צ’יפס עם זה?” – כדי להיות דניאלה וייס עם מבטא? נו, בהצלחה שיהיה לכם.
— Raanan Shaked (@raananshaked) January 2, 2019
Glick was born in the US and has degrees from Columbia University and Harvard University. She was also an officer in the IDF who worked on the Oslo negotiations team, as well as being a deputy foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Weiss is the former mayor of Kedumim and a longtime settler leader – who is from Ramat Gan, not the US. Bennett, however, is the son of two American parents who moved to Israel from San Francisco.
Over 400 Twitter accounts liked Shaked’s tweet, including Yediot political reporter Yuval Karni and Globes columnist Moti Kristal, among other prominent figures.
Meretz activist Uri Zaki responded that “in the current American administration, Glick could be a leading candidate for ambassador to the UN or human rights commissioner.”
But many of the responses accused Shaked of bigotry.
One responded with a graphic that read: “That’s as condescending as you can get.”
“That’s one way to deal with an inferiority complex,” another tweet read. “It’s probably cheaper than a psychologist.”
Yesh Atid took the opportunity to promote an event in English.
“Journalist @raananshaked thinks English speakers who move to Israel are stupid and only here because they can’t get a job elsewhere,” the party’s tweet in English reads. “We don’t & that’s why Yesh Atid has the most active English speakers branch in Israel & Yair Lapid is doing an English town hall on the 13th.”
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