Shocking! I thought Judaism was all about #onelove.
Forward: The leader of a local Israeli government council said Thursday that he doesn’t want to see Arabs using public swimming pools in his locality.
“I don’t hate Arabs, but I don’t want them at my pools,” Lower Galilee Regional Council head Motti Dotanhe told a radio station. “I don’t go to their pools, either.”
“If I’d come in a sleazy bathing suit, or if girls in bikinis come with me, it’s clear to you what will happen to them, so that’s why they’ll [Arabs] stay in their pools and my guys will stay in our pools.”
Dotan claimed that his comments had nothing to do with racism. “It’s cultural differences, it’s not racism… In non-Jewish, Arab culture, you go into the pool with clothes, trying to dictate all types of clothing, and that’s why it doesn’t suit us. The culture of cleanliness isn’t the same as ours. Why is that racist?” he asked.
