Storm: "I could kill eight haredim with my fingers"

Quote from a comic series called Polishok aired yesterday - generates a severe upheaval • One of the characters in the series explains, "I could kill eight haredim with my fingers like that" • factor to Behadrey Haredim: 'a situation where the blood of haredim is hefker – is impossible. There's no chance a similar sentence was quoted about another minority, Ethiopians or even Arabs"

The incitement against the Haredi community has long been the norm, the Haredi public has become accustomed to an offensive, disparaging and defamatory remarks, as well as crude and violent calls to harm it and its sons.

It seems this spirit of permissiveness has passed over the filmmakers of 'Polishuk' comic series that simulates the Israeli government. Thus, in the final episode of the series aired last night (Monday) a particularly sharp quote was said by one of the characters, that "I could kill eight Haredim with my fingers, just like that."

It should be emphasized that the creators of the series indicate at the end of each chapter that "the series is completely fictional, and its contents, if any, are based on incidents that happened in distant countries which do not exist and it is inconceivable that they have something to do with a person or event in Israel."

However, the blunt remark, relating, inter alia, to the Haredi party Shas and its spiritual leader, had already managed to create a real storm, and strengthen the sense of incitement and unbearable ease of 'pressing the trigger' in the case of the Haredi public.

A senior Haredi cause fighting against the ongoing incitement says to Behadrey Haredim: "There can not be a situation where the blood of the Haredimis hefker. There is no chance of a similar sentence quoted about another minority, Ethiopians or even Arabs. Only about Haredim there is a feeling that one can crush and incite against them regardless".

Keshet said in response: "Polishuk is a satiric drama series, that any connection between it and reality is unfounded and purely coincidental. Even within the framework of satire, the messages the episode gave over are diametrically opposed to statements of the character, and as recalled the episode ends with call for rapprochement between the secular and religious. In any case, we regret if anyone was offended by the contents, there was no such intention."

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