ISRAEL: Netanyahu’s Education Minister Says American Jews Marrying Non-Jews Is “Like A Second Holocaust”

Axios reports:

Israel’s newly appointed minister of education, Rafi Peretz, said at a cabinet meeting on July 1 that the rate of intermarriage among U.S. Jews is “like a second Holocaust,” according to three people who were in the room.

Peretz, a former chief rabbi of the Israeli army, is the leader of a bloc of ultra right-wing religious parties.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was personally involved in forming this political bloc, which also includes the Jewish supremacist “Jewish Power” party. If Netanyahu wins the upcoming elections, Peretz will likely stay on as education minister.

Strong scoop by @BarakRavid
New Education Minister Rafi Peretz called “assimilation” of US Jews “a second holocaust” in a cabinet meeting last week. Netanyahu responded saying he’s “concerned over demographic shifts among US Jews and their distancing from Judaism” https://t.co/K0yQvhU4JH

— Anshel Pfeffer (@AnshelPfeffer) July 9, 2019

Worth adding that for all his “concern” about US Jews, Netanyahu in closed conversations has already expressed the view that large majority of US liberal Jews will assimilate and disappear within a generation or two and that Israel’s real base in the US are Christian evangelicals

— Anshel Pfeffer (@AnshelPfeffer) July 9, 2019