Miri Regev

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Miri Regev is a member of the Israeli Knesset for Likud.[1]

Regev served as head of the IDF Spokesperson's Unit from 2005 to 2007.[2]

African migrants controversy

In May 2012, Regev took part in a Tel Aviv protest against African migrants in Israel and said that "the Sudanese were a cancer in our body."[3]

Following criticism of her comments Regev said:

"When I compared the migrant worker phenomenon to cancer I was referring to the way the phenomenon had spread, and not anything else. If anyone took it otherwise and was consequently offended, I apologize and I surely did not intend to hurt either Holocaust survivors or cancer patients".[4]

Notes

  1. By Ilan Lior and Tomer Zarchin Demonstrators attack African migrants in south Tel Aviv, Haaretz, 24 May 2012.
  2. Appointment of new IDF Spokesperson, Israel Defence Forces, 7 August 2007, archived at the Internet Archive, 31 May 2008.
  3. By Ilan Lior and Tomer Zarchin Demonstrators attack African migrants in south Tel Aviv, Haaretz, 24 May 2012.
  4. Israeli MK: I didn't mean to shame Holocaust by calling African migrants a 'cancer', Haaretz, 27 May 2012.