Shlomi Tamam, chairman of the Jewish Home party's branch in Holon, on Thursday called on the mayor of Holon to cancel an appearance by poet Yehonatan Geffen at a festival to take place in the city this coming April.
Geffen caused an uproar this week when he published a poem on his Instagram account glorifying Palestinian Authority teen Ahed Tamimi, who was recorded slapping Israeli soldiers. Geffen compared Tamimi to heroic victims of oppression throughout the generations, from David against Goliath to Hannah Szenes, who courageously parachuted into Europe to rescue Jews during the Holocaust and was later tortured and murdered by the Nazis, and Anne Frank, famous teenage diarist, murdered in the Holocaust.
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