Lapid in hot water for ‘minimizing’ concept of antisemitism – In recent speech, foreign minister says slave traders, Muslim fanatics, and perpetrators of attacks againsts the LGBTQ community are also ‘antisemites.’ | israelhayom.com

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid garnered harsh criticism Wednesday after stating that antisemitism did not target Jews alone, but was rather part of a “broader family of hate.”
In a speech he gave at a conference organized by the Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism, he said: “Antisemites weren’t only in the Budapest ghetto. Antisemites were [also] slave traders who threw slaves bound together with chains into the ocean.