Wife of Israeli Minister Apologizes After Calling Obama 'Black and Weak'

By Ellie Shechet  |  June 22, 2015 | 5:10pm
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Judy Shalom Nir Mozes, an Israeli TV personality and the wife of Israeli interior minister Silvan Shalom, has apologized after tweeting a racist joke about President Obama on Sunday, four days after a gun-wielding racist killed nine black community leaders inside Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.

“Do u know what Obama coffee is? Black and weak,” Mozes tweeted, quickly deleting after the furious responses began piling up. She had a good excuse, though!

As The Guardian points out, this isn’t Mozes’ first rodeo. Back in 2012, she stepped down from a position with UNICEF after referring to Gaza’s residents on Facebook as nothing more than “people whose children are fed hate towards Israel … who have it in their DNA to hate us.”

Her husband, Silvan Shalom, is a member of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party—and is, like most of the people currently running the show in Israel, a total asshole. An outspoken critic of the formation of a Palestinian state, Shalom was recently appointed Israel’s chief negotiator in peace talks with the Palestinians.

In other words, things are going great.

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