"Can you imagine someone in the U.S. saying Hispanics or blacks or Muslims cannot build in a certain city?"

JERUSALEM – A member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party slammed as “racist” President Obama’s policies against Jewish construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem.

“I think it is racist,” stated Likud Knesset Member Danny Danon. “Can you imagine someone in the U.S. saying Hispanics or blacks or Muslims cannot build in a certain city?”

“What we see now coming from the (Obama) administration – telling Jews to not build in major parts of Jerusalem – is unacceptable,” said Danon.

The Israeli lawmaker was speaking in a radio interview with WND senior reporter Aaron Klein, who hosts an investigative program on New York’s WABC 770 AM.

Danon, the deputy speaker of Israel’s parliament, said most Israelis see Obama as “biased toward the Palestinian side.”

“The majority of Israelis don’t see the U.S. administration that they can be a fair negotiator,” he said. “They used to be biased toward Israel. But now it’s clear that this administration is biased toward the Palestinian side.”

For the entire article and recorded phone interview between MK Danny Danon and Aaron Klein click here