Avraham Tamir fired after saying religious Zionism was ‘a cancer at the body of the Jewish faith,’ personally slamming rabbis Melamed and Stav
Haredi radio station Kol Barama has decided to fire a radio talk show host after he offended leaders of the religious Zionistmovement.
In his radio show, focusing on Jewish faith and national issues,” anchor Avraham Tamir said that religious Zionism is “‘a cancer at the body of the Jewish faith,” and that “its rabbis are criminals, trying to bring down Jewish faith.”
Tamir’s radio program was part of a series of conversations about the “national rift” and the issue of theuniversal draft. Referring to Rabbi David Stav, who called upon haredimto enlist in the IDF, Tamir said he was “either a heretic or a fool, and most likely both.” And to Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, who also encouraged haredim to join the army, Tamir referred as a “brat” and a “fool.”
In the days following the media frenzy surrounding Tamir’s slander, Amiad Taub of The Jewish Home Party, sent a letter to Kol Barama manager Yaron Kaner. “Tamir’s derogatory statements about the religious-Zionist sector go against journalistic ethics,” Taub wrote, “and were ironically broadcast during the nine days preceding the Tisha B’Av fast – a day in which the people of Israel mourn the destruction of the Temple due to baseless hatred. My friends and I will not cooperate with a radio station that allows such slander against our rabbis.”
“In case your station continues to employ this inciter,” Taub continued “we, representatives of religious Zionism, will make sure all religious Zionists know about your support of such provocations and call to ban your station as long as Mr. Tamir is still working.”
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