Realising his mistake, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s eldest son Yair has apologised to Hindus after he confronted flak from some Indians who found one of his tweets to be “quite offensive”.
Yair Netanyahu, 29, had on Sunday posted an image of Hindu goddess Durga, with the face of the prosecutor in his father’s conspiracy litigations superimposed on it. Later he deleted the post from his official Twitter handle.
“I’ve tweeted a meme from a satirical page, criticising political figures in Israel. I didn’t realise 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 apologise,” Yair said in a tweet.
Attorney General Avichai Mandelbit’s face was superimposed over that of a tiger accompanying the goddess under a caption that said, “know your place, you despicable people”, as per the tweet.
The prime minister has made sustaining Israel’s ties with India, and his close connection to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, one of his crucial foreign policy goals and he would have been anxious not to have his diplomatic efforts upended by his son, who has a long record of prompting controversies on social media.
Netanyahu has frequently provoked controversy in current years with his social media posts.
