Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted journalist Amnon Abramovich in a Facebook post on Saturday for failing to comment about a doctored photo showing the prime minister in Nazi uniform, when Abramovich had condemned similar occurrences in the past. "It's very interesting that the Israeli media, which are always shocked by incitement against Israeli leaders, chose this week to downplay the wild incitement against me online," Netanyahu wrote in a post. "Abramovich, who correctly cried out when a doctored photo of President [Reuven] Rivlin in an S.S. uniform appeared online, did not have a word to say on Saturday evening about the post published by Gilad Halpern, a Ynet editor, with a picture of the prime minister in a Nazi uniform. "What would happen if it were a picture of a different leader? You know the answer." Halpern's post, which has since been taken down, was apparently aimed at mocking Netanyahu's comments from Tuesday in which he suggested that World War II-era grand mufti of Jerusalem, Nazi sympathizer Haj Amin al-Husseini, convinced Adolf Hitler to kill, rather than just expel, the Jews of Europe. (Netanyahu later said his comments were misunderstood.)
