Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s eldest son Yair was forced to apologize after facing angry responses from Hindus who found one of his tweets offensive.
On Sunday Yari Netanyahu shared a meme of the Hindu goddess Durga making a rude gesture with her middle finger. In the meme, the face of Liat Ben Ari, the prosecutor in one of his father’s ongoing corruption cases, had been superimposed on the body of the multi-armed Hindu goddess of war.
RT reports: The goddess’ many arms were photoshopped to flip the bird, while Attorney General Avichai Mandelbit’s face was placed on a tiger at her feet, alongside a caption that read “Know your place you despicable people.”
“I’ve tweeted a meme from a satirical page, criticizing political figures in Israel. I didn’t realize the meme also portrayed an image connected to the majestic Hindu faith. As soon as I realised it from comments of our Indian friends, I have removed the tweet. I apologize,” Netanyahu said, before tweeting a pandering nationalist slogan used throughout India.