The speech delivered by Yitzchak Rabin's grandson at the official memorial event for his grandfather angered Erez Uriel of the Center for Combating Anti-Semitism in Norway.
In the speech, Ben Artzi said:
“The youth-oriented newspapers of democratic Israeli movements, including the Likud, printed claims that Rabin's government was based on a path full of underhandedness, lies and deception. A demonstration in Jerusalem with the participation of leaders, some of whom are here today, went out of control, and in a manner which was terribly reminiscent of Kristallnacht in Nazi Germany, a wild mob went on a rampage of violence and destruction previously unseen in Israel. Despite all of this, a large proportion of the Israeli public supported the path pf Yitzchak Rabin and he was even chosen as Man of the Year in all of Israel's media. Great support also came in from the US, Europe and the Arab countries.”
Urieli told Arutz Sheva that the comparison – by a representative of the Rabin family in a memorial ceremony for Rabin at Mount Herzl – between an entire section of the Israeli public and the Nazis was an anti-democratic step designed to stifle speech. “We meet similar things to this in Europe, where there is constant incitement against Israelis. Rabin's grandson compared an entire sector to the Nazis; a sector that does not vote Labor and does not lend absolute support to the opinions he holds.”
He 'had no shame'
"Denouncing Jews and presenting them as Nazis is a technique that serves anti-Semitic elements in the world in order to vilify the Israeli public,” Urieli said. “The comparison between Jews and Nazis is outrageous.”
"The grandson had no shame and with a lot of nerve, he denounced the Prime Minister who sat right in front of him. Netanyahu stayed mum and did not react because he is afraid,” he added. “The only one who said anything about the matter was Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin... "Israel has many memorial days for [David] Ben Gurion, Rechavam Ze'evi, Menachem Begin, [Binyamin Ze'ev] Herzl and [Ze'ev] Jabotinsky and the one exception that serves for spreading hatred instead of remembering the individual is the memorial day for Rabin.”