Israeli-American Rabbi Yossi Mizrachi, with a history of controversial and offensive remarks, has sparked outrage after a video surfaced of him mocking Hindus over cow worship and making derogatory remarks about Indian doctors. Several people, including Indians and Israelis, him.Yossi Mizrachi has courted controversy over his remarks on Holocaust deaths, Muslims and people with disabilities. (Social media image) A controversial Israeli-American rabbi has drawn sharp criticism after a video of him mocking Hindus for revering cows circulated on social media this week.

Rabbi Yosef (Yossi) Mizrachi made sweeping claims about Indians consuming cow urine and ridiculed Indian doctors, who he said did the same for treating patients. He also joked about cows blocking roads and delaying traffic in New Delhi.

His remarks have sparked angry reactions from people, including from Israel and India. Several people called him a "racist" over the "insult of Hindu religious traditions"."You know the Indians that worship the cow?

Hindus," Mizrachi said, before claiming that people "lick cow urine from their floors". He also said, "And by the way, some of those people who do that are doctors," before expressing gratitude to God for not making him like Indians.Israeli researcher and writer Yeshaya Rosenman, who lives and studies in India, slammed Rabbi Yossi Mizrachi over his anti-Hindu remarks, saying the "international damage" he was doing to Israel's reputation was "astounding in its scope".Reacting to the clip, Palestine's Ambassador to India, Abdullah M Abu Shawesh, warned that those who "mock their faith or insult their religious traditions" threaten humanity's foundations, even as he didn't explicitly name Mizrachi.

An Indian described Mizrachi's remarks as "crude, racist hallucination". Another person called the rabbi a "racist psychopath".Born in Israel, Mizrachi is a US-based Orthodox Jewish preacher who runs an online religious outreach platform called Divine Information.

He has repeatedly faced criticism for false claims about Holocaust victims and offensive remarks about people with disabilities and Muslims. His planned British speaking tour in March 2019 was cancelled amid reports that authorities were considering preventing his entry.WHAT DID ISRAELI-AMERICAN RABBI SAY ABOUT HINDUS?

The video begins with Mizrachi discussing an Indian man who, he claimed, once worked on his Facebook page and wanted to convert to Judaism. "He was living in India with a father and a brother that bowed down to the cow," Mizrachi said."So they bring the cow into the living room of the house. And when the cow throw some water on the floor, they lick it," he claimed.The rabbi further alleged that Indians bought cow urine from pharmacies and mocked the possibility of doctors practising such rituals. "The next time when you go to the hospital in New Delhi, when the doctor over there will come, the Maharaja, he will come to you and say, good morning," he said, before suggesting that the doctor might have consumed cow urine the previous night.Mizrachi also joked about a cow he called "Suzy" sitting in the middle of a road, delaying commuters who would not dare move the animal.He concluded, "We are laughing on it its fine, but we are also thanking 'Him' for not making us like them."RABBI MIZRACHI SLAMMED FOR MOCKING HINDUSAfter the clip went viral on X, several people, including Indians and Israelis, slammed Mizrachi and his remarks.Israeli researcher and writer Yeshaya Rosenman slammed Mizrachi for damaging Israel's reputation and accused him of a history of "insulting gentiles from Abrahamic religions and religious Zionist Jews, kosher Jews born to mixed marriages, autistic children and the sick and cancer patients with prostate and breast cancer".Rosenman said the damage Mizrachi was doing to Israel's image was "astounding in its scope"."I sincerely hope that his entry into Israel will be banned in the future, just as his entry into the UK was banned in the past," he added on his post on X.A person named Roman Bista wrote on X, "Dogs keep barking while the elephant keeps walking.""Shame on you Mizrahi," he added.Palestinian Ambassador Abdullah M Abu Shawesh, without naming Mizrahi, wrote on X, "Racism is a threat of humanity.""Those who incite hatred against people of any religion or belief, mock their faith or insult their religious traditions are not merely spreading intolerance.

They are threatening the very foundations of our shared humanity," he wrote on X."Racists are a danger to us all," he added.RABBI MIZRACHI'S CONTROVERSIAL PAST AND UK-ENTRY ROWMizrachi has faced criticism from several quarters, including from Jewish religious leaders over several statements in the past.In December 2015, he falsely claimed that fewer than one million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, against the historically established figure of around six million. Holocaust historian Efraim Zuroff rejected his claim, and Mizrachi subsequently apologised, according to The Times of Israel.He had also claimed that autism and Down syndrome were punishments for sins committed in previous lives.In December 2016, 16 Orthodox Jewish rabbis condemned his preaching methods, describing his statements as misleading and "particularly objectionable, and even dangerous."On March 13, 2019, The Jewish Chronicle reported that British authorities had intervened to prevent Mizrachi from travelling to London and Manchester for a speaking tour.However, Mizrachi subsequently told the newspaper that he had decided not to board his flight, fearing questioning or refusal at the airport.

The British Home Office did not publicly confirm an individual entry-ban order.Mizrachi has previously made inflammatory remarks about Muslims in France and attacked Britain's Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis. His latest remarks about Hindus have now triggered a row, adding to his long list of controversies.- Ends