ALGEMEINER
‘Go Choke on a Latke’; Livid Social Media Users Respond to Kerry’s Hanukkah Greeting Issued Shortly After US Failure to Back Israel at UN
by Barney Breen-Portnoy
December 25, 2016

America’s top diplomat drew a flurry of ire and scorn in response to a Hanukah greeting he tweeted on Saturday, less than 24 hours after the US allowed an anti-Israeli settlement UN Security Council resolution to pass. “Happy Hanukkah!,” Secretary of State John Kerry said in the tweet. “May the lights of the menorah brighten your home and the year ahead. From my family to yours, Chag Sameach.”  With many Jews and other members of the pro-Israel community still smarting from the Obama administration’s abstention from the vote on the resolution — which, among other things, deemed Israeli communities in the West Bank and East Jerusalem to be illegal — a fiery backlash to Kerry’s tweet was quick to come. “Seriously? Go choke on a latke,” international human rights lawyer and freelance journalist Arsen Ostrovsky fumed. READ MORE