Yinon Magal
Role at the time: Host of "The Patriots" on Channel 14, in a video posted on X
Challenged the characterization
Response to this claim
Magal called Eisenkot a monkey as an underworld expression for a front man controlled by others, not as a racial insult.
“My response to another fake "Yinon Magal controversy" (Translated from Hebrew. Original: תגובתי לעוד פייק "סערת ינון מגל")”
Read the original post (opens in a new tab)Yinon Magal on X: video response to the controversy over his remarkX post 2111547654945886441 with a 1:54 video, October 17, 2026 at 10:59 p.m. Israel time
Why we used this label
The reference point is Magal's on-air remark calling Gadi Eisenkot a monkey run by Ashkenazi elites, which critics called a racist slur. Magal calls the controversy fake and says he meant an underworld expression for a front man, which disputes the description of the remark as racist rather than defending a racial insult.