Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) has stepped forward and issued an apology for last week’s appalling statement made on Independence Day. A guest on the air spoke of the need to “dilute the chareidi population”. The remarks led to a scathing round of condemnatory statements from chareidi politicians and others.
Galei Tzahal stepped up and acted appropriately. First of all, it was explained that after the remarks were made the person responsible was immediately booted from the broadcast booth. Station officials promised the public that person will not be on the air again in the future and then the station issued an apology. Wishing to make sure the apology was heard, it was part of the erev Shabbos hourly news, seeking to get the message out that the army-run radio station was sincerely offended by the racist remark heard over the airwaves.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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and what about their supervisor?
In the military, and this was a military station, the chain of command can expect to be help responsibility for failure to supervise the underlings – or is the low life the officially designated scapegoat
1. Mr. Kuperman — in every workplace, including ever army in the world, sometimes people do stupid things and get booted. Not every time something happens though is there reason to discipline a supervisor. Sometimes but not every time. You should know that.
Akuperman you add a hard bitten anti Semite that’ finds fault with isreal even when they do the right thing
That was a very smart move that the Army made. The vision, “to be a Peoples’ Army,” must be safeguarded. One would expect no less from a an established professional military. If an employee of the United States’ AFN (Armed Forces Network) made such a crude, bigoted statement, he or she would be held to account. The supervisor would be questioned as to why and how this could happen. And if there was a track record of bigotry, then the supervisor would probably be held indirectly responsible.