August 11, 2016, Forward http://forward.com (US)
Yoav Eliasi, the Israeli rapper known as “The
Shadow,” has suggested on his Facebook page that Israel should castrate dead
Palestinian attackers in order to deter Muslim “martyrs” who believe they will
meet 72 virgins in heaven. He also said that medical teams responding to terror
attacks should “cut out the organs” of dead Palestinians for transplant in
Jewish bodies.
For anyone familiar with Israel’s notoriously
extreme “talkback” culture — in which online comments sections spiral into
hateful discourse — Eliasi’s comments might seem
