Yair Netanyahu (son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu) posts vulgar, racist, and violent (as well as drunken) messages on Facebook

**The Jerusalem Post:**<br><br>>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair is once again in hot water for a series of private Facebook posts that have surfaced on social media in which he made racist and homophobic comments and appeared to be drunk in the posts.<br><br>>One of the posts, posted in December 2019 appeared to be a response to a comment on a post by a Facebook user named Azi Schwartz, who wrote: “Good night BOY-ka.”<br><br>>Netanyahu responded by saying “gay ???????”<br><br>>In another post also from December 2019, Netanyahu posted a picture of a black square and wrote: “I simply don’t understand why they don’t shoot them. Shoot them on the spot.”<br><br>>In a post from September 2018, a woman commented on Netanyahu’s picture asking “Who is this?”, to which he responded by saying “My ex girlfriend. The most beautiful white woman ever.”<br><br>>In another post, Netanyahu appeared to be drunk in a video posted on his Facebook wall.<br><br>>Netanyahu has consistently been in the headlines for his behavior, including a recording of him soliciting a prostitute for cocaine. There have also been requests for him to face punishment for his behavior, including a request by the Movement for Quality Government in Israel to force him to leave his post as head of the Prime Minister’s Office’sퟀconflicts of interest committee.<br><br>---<br><br>**The Times of Israel:**<br><br>>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s eldest son Yair appeared to be drunk in a video posted to his Facebook page in December 2019, in which he sang about Jerusalem and Palestinians and also made racist comments toward Arab Israelis.<br><br>>The video appears to show Yair sitting in a car, with another man sitting next to him.<br><br>>Yair begins to sing, “We’re in Jerusalem, we’re in Jerusalem, this is our city, my boy.”<br><br>>The man next to him then joins in, saying, “We’re in Jerusalem, we’re in Jerusalem, this is the capital of our State, BOY-ka.”<br><br>>Yair responds by saying, “gay ???????”, using the ??????? (boy-ka) pronunciation of the Prime Minister's name.<br><br>>After the video was posted to social media, MK Aida Touma-Sliman (Hadash) wrote on Twitter that the video shows Yair to be a “racist, drunk, settler who lives in Caesarea, Jerusalem is not his city.”<br><br>> MK Ofer Cassif (Hadash) called Yair a “descendant of the Khazar tribe” and compared him to the grandson of Benito Mussolini.<br><br>---<br><br>**Haaretz:**<br><br>>The chairman of the Joint List party, MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash), wrote on Twitter that the video was a display of “the hysterical and incoherent hatred that characterizes the occupation and racism.”<br><br>>“If he was a ‘socially isolated boy with special needs,’ as [a Netanyahu associate] called him, it’s a shame that the taxpayers weren’t told [because] we pay for his guards, his trips and the promotion of his father’s propaganda.”<br><br>>Meanwhile, a Joint List MK shared a post on Twitter that said: “Imagine if Saeb Erekat went live on Facebook from the driver’s seat of a car shouting, ‘It’s my country, you (expletive) occupiers.’<br><br>>“Imagine what Israel’s leaders and military correspondents would say about that … Imagine what the Israeli media would say about [Arab] MKs … Imagine what the Israeli street would say.”<br><br>>The Facebook post also said: “Assume that he’s an Israeli Jew. The standard isn’t valid when Palestinians are (unjustifiably) suspected of even the slightest thing because they’re Arabs.<br><br>>“The standard isn’t valid when the chairman of the Joint List posts a caricature with the caption: ‘When the goyim see us for what we really are.’ Then someone comes along and makes a video about Jerusalem, an occupied city that’s home to its indigenous inhabitants (Palestinians) while the occupation works to make it the capital.<br><br>>“So, Jewish racism, you are allowed to, but your racism is not allowed. So, Jewish terrorism is allowed, but your terrorism isn’t.”<br><br>>It added: “So, Jewish racism, you are allowed to, but your racism is not allowed. So, Jewish terrorism is allowed, but your terrorism isn’t.<br><br>>“So, the Jewish prime minister’s son is allowed to, but the chairman of the ‘Joint List party is not allowed to. So, the Jewish Facebook is allowed to, but your Facebook isn’t.”<br><br>---<br><br>**Ynetnews:**<br><br>>The video was shot on December 11, 2019, the day after the United Kingdom's general election, in which Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party won a landslide victory.<br><br>>According to reports, the elections in the UK were marked by an atmosphere of hostility towards British Jews, with many fearing that if the Labour Party had won, its leader Jeremy Corbyn, a known critic of Zionism, would become prime minister.<br><br>>Yair posted the video with the caption: “We came to celebrate the huge victory of my friend Boris Johnson.”<br><br>>He was widely criticized for his behavior, with former MK Stav Shaffir (Labor) saying: “Sadly, this is what the Netanyahu generations look like – spoiled, drunk, oblivious, racist and unemployed. The writing is on the wall.”<br><br>> MK Amichai Chikli (Yamina) defended Yair, saying: “We can’t accept a situation where a family (the Netanyahu family) is subjected to this kind of abuse and demands that the Netanyahu family be punished for Yair’s behavior.”<br><br>> MK Simcha Rothman (Yamina) said: “The Israeli media are seeking to humiliate the Netanyahu family, and the prime minister and his family should be left alone.<br><br>---<br><br>**Jerusalem Post:**<br><br>>“The BOY-ka family is going to sleep,” Yair Netanyahu said in a Facebook video of him and a friend that was widely circulated on social media on Wednesday. “Why are you recording? I don’t understand. Why do you care? Boy-ka F— you,” he said.<br><br>>Netanyahu has consistently been in the headlines for his behavior, including a recording of him soliciting a prostitute for cocaine. There have also been requests for him to face punishment for his behavior, including a request by the Movement for Quality Government in Israel to force him to leave his post as head of the Prime Minister’s Office’s conflicts of interest committee.<br><br>>Yair Netanyahu BOY-ka Video.jpg<br><br>>Netanyahu made waves again in January when he called for a boycott of a popular snack food company because of their solely-Hebrew ad campaign.<br><br>>Netanyahu’s Facebook page is friends with over 100,000 people, including MK Ofer Cassif (Hadash).<br><br>>Netanyahu’s mother Sara Netanyahu has been quoted as saying that Yair “is not a public figure” and that he has done “nothing wrong” in his life.<br><br>>Netanyahu has been the subject of controversy because of his behavior and the fact that he is the son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<br><br>>Yair Netanyahu is currently facing a libel lawsuit over comments he made about an Israeli activist.<br><br>>Netanyahu is also under investigation for tax evasion.<br><br>>Parody accounts of Yair Netanyahu have also surfaced on social media, with some even being verified by Twitter, sparking outrage from many.<br><br>>Netanyahu has consistently been in the headlines for his behavior, including a recording of him soliciting a prostitute for cocaine.<br><br>>Netanyahu has also been the subject of controversy because of his behavior and the fact that he is the son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<br><br>>Netanyahu is currently facing a libel lawsuit over comments he made about an Israeli activist.<br><br>>Netanyahu is also under investigation for tax evasion.