Dudi Amsalem: “The attorney general and the court are anti-Semites, Solberg? An idiot”

Likud minister Dudi Amsalem attacked the attorney general, deputy attorney general Gil Limon and judges of the court this morning (Wednesday) in an interview on “Kalman-Liberman” on Kan News on Reshet Bet, against the backdrop of their opposition to the Torah Study Basic Law. “They are carrying out an anti-Semitic act,” he said.

“I see this as a desecration of God’s name. I see the value of Torah having become a concept that actually comes to persecute people,” Amsalem said, referring to the law that places Torah scholars on the same level as those who serve in the IDF. “The term ‘Torah study’ has become something that a person can be beaten for when he comes out of a bus stop, slapped and walked away from. The blood of all the Haredim has been abandoned. Whoever studies Torah has become an enemy of the nation.”

The Likud minister also referred to Deputy President of the Supreme Court Noam Solberg, saying of him, “I think he is not a very smart guy, and therefore he is cooperating with some movement that wants to erase absolutely all the foundations. I think he is more stupid than anti-Semitic because he is cooperating with those who want to erase the foundations of Judaism in the Land of Israel.” Amsalem continued attacking Solberg in the interview, saying that “he comes and represents the world of religious Zionism. Why do hesder yeshivas serve for a year and a half, while I served three years? So why not reduce the hesder too?”

Amsalem also expressed firm opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s demand to receive 10 reserved spots on the Likud list in the upcoming election. “I will fight this to my last drop of blood,” Amsalem declared. “The prime minister is mistaken. He invented this nonsense of reserved spots. Begin and Shamir never reserved spots. This is a democratic party. Whoever wants to, should come and be elected. No reserved candidate adds anything whatsoever to the Likud list.”

Amsalem also addressed the Knesset Committee’s discussions about the immunity of MK Tally Gotliv after an indictment was filed against her for revealing the identity of an ISA officer who is married to Shikma Bressler. “A Knesset member’s immunity is substantive immunity. Ben-Gurion opposed immunity because Knesset members were being wiretapped and followed, but in the end the law was passed. It was the most correct law made then.”

He added that “a Knesset member needs immunity so that he can act and say what he thinks the public must know. Let’s say that tomorrow, the ISA disappears people and a gag order is placed on it. Then the Knesset member will come and say he is not allowed to speak about it?”