"A July 9 story in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Netanyahu used the epithet "self-hating Jews" to describe Axelrod and Emanuel, who are viewed by the Israeli government as the driving force behind Obama's push to pressure Israel to freeze settlement activity. Only when the quote was picked up by American newspapers did Netanyahu's spokesman, Mark Regev, issue a statement denying that the prime minister had used that term"
http://www.wrmea.org/2009-november/israel-and-judaism-attempts-to-silence-critics-of-israeli-policies-as-self-hating-jews-a-failing-strategy.html
Jim Carroll