For reasons I can’t figure out, this joke is supposed to be horribly racist.

Via Foreign Policy:

When your husband serves as Israel’s interior minister and is charged with overseeing the country’s strategic dialogue with its most important ally, the United States, this is what qualifies as an ill-advised tweet.

That tweet from journalist and broadcaster Judy Shalom Nir-Mozes, the wife of Israeli Vice Prime Minister and Interior Minister Silvan Shalom, sparked an online firestorm over the weekend. She quickly deleted the tweet and posted an apology addressed to President Barack Obama.