St. Louis County Conservative B’nai Ammona Congregation’s Chief Rabbi Jeffrey Abraham has been given enormous amounts of space in St. Louis media outlets to represent the Jewish community and give his views on the Middle East, local policies and whether or not other people are antisemites. Abraham is also a demonstrated bigot who uses language to refer to Palestinians similar to that used by genocidal regimes to dehumanize their victims.
Recently Abraham shared with his congregation, the St. Louis community, and the world his terrifying prejudice – claiming that there are “no ‘innocent civilians’ in Gaza”, “all the people in Gaza are Hamas”, and all Palestinians “need to be re-educated”. He also “completely agrees” with a statement that all the people of Gaza are “Animals. Period. Full stop.” …..more
