An Israeli settler leader called the U.S. ambassador to Israel a “Jew boy.” The leader of the Yesha Council of settlers, Adi Mintz, made the accusation against Daniel Kurtzer in an interview published Wednesday in Day to Day magazine. Kurtzer is a “Jew boy sitting in the American Embassy and I’m not ashamed to utter the term — he receives reports from Peace Now and runs to the State Department with then,” Mintz said.
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