“After viewing a clip of Dan Shapiro’s remarks, Bushinsky declared, “To put it bluntly, it was a statement typical of a little Jew boy”

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Former Netanyahu Aide Calls U.S. Ambassador to Israel ‘Jew Boy’
by Allison Kaplan Sommer
January 19, 2016

A former advisor of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the derogatory Hebrew term “Yehudon” – loosely translated as “little Jew boy” to characterize remarks by U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro . On a Tuesday morning political panel show, on Israel’s Channel 2, commentator Aviv Bushinsky reacted to remarks Shapiro made in his speech to the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) conference. Shapiro said “too much Israeli vigilantism in the West Bank goes on unchecked,” adding that “there is a lack of thorough investigations… at times it seems Israel has two standards of adherence to rule of law in the West Bank – one for Israelis and one for Palestinians.” …When his fellow panelists protested that Shapiro was merely expressing the position of the United States, Bushinsky responded, “Nobody was standing there with a hammer forcing him to say it.”
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