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Israeli education minister Rafi Peretz likens Jewish intermarriage to ‘second Holocaust’

The Jewish Home leader was attacked by North American Jewish groups for ‘offensive’ remarks

July 10, 2019 08:31
Jewish Home leader Rafi Peretz is Education Minister in Benjamin Netanyahu's interim government

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Israel’s new education minister was sharply criticised after he compared intermarriage among Jews in the United States to a “second Holocaust”.

Rafi Peretz, a member of the United Right List, made the remark during a recent cabinet meeting discussing the state of world Jewry.

The session had been convened to discuss issues affecting diaspora Jews, including the growing threat of antisemitism, according to the journalist Barak Ravid on Israel’s Channel 13 news.

But Mr Peretz was reported to have said “assimilation is like a second Holocaust” and his spokesman confirmed the remark on Tuesday.