© Screenshot/TwitterIranian head rabbi Yehuda Gerami in an interview with Iranian TV broadcast on Quds Day, May 22, 2020.
Tehran's chief rabbi on Friday lashed out at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jewish Israelis as Iran marked its annual anti-Israel Quds Day.
Rabbi Yehuda Gerami, the head rabbi of the Iranian Jewish community, said in a Hebrew message aimed at Israelis: "You don't represent Judaism."
Prominent figures in the Jewish community of Iran, where the Islamist regime avowedly seeks Israel's destruction, intermittently issue anti-Israel statements that match the regime's agenda. There has been a spate of such statements disseminated in Iranian media in recent days, including by Iran's sole Jewish MP and by an extreme anti-Zionist rabbi, while Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has stepped up his calls for Israel to be eliminated.
Prior to the Islamic Revolution in 1979, there were some 100,000 Jews in Iran; by 2016, according to an Iranian census, that number had fallen to below 10,000.
"We Iranian Jews want to sent this message to the Zionists, and first and foremost to Netanyahu," Gerami said. "Know that you Zionists do not represent Judaism and do not represent the Jewish people," Gerami said in a statement broadcast on Iranian television.
"You only represent the idea of a political movement whose ideas and values oppose the ideas and values of our holy Torah and the Jewish religion.""We strongly condemn your aggressive actions and emphasize to the whole world:
There is a big difference between Judaism and Zionism," Gerami said.
Comment: No Ms Ahern, the problem is you don't think at all. Which means you don't really care either.
This is what all these examples of government and cultural elites breaking the rules is telling us; they don't actually believe a 'killer virus' is going around.