News of the budding peace process between the U.S. and Iran incensed members of the Israeli political class, with one pundit accusing the president’s Jewish son-in-law, Jared Kushner, of betraying his “real home.”

Trump announced the memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran on Sunday, the first step in a longer series of negotiations, if it is formally signed Friday in Geneva, Switzerland. Israel was reportedly sidelined during the process and did not see the MOU draft.

The video player is currently playing an ad.Since then, the president has sharply criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel’s occupation of Southern Lebanon, a major issue that could spoil any chance of peace. Netanyahu and other members of his right-wing coalition have vowed to keep Israeli troops in the region for as long as they see fit.

The Israeli political class erupted in the wake of the MOU news and Trump’s G7 rebuke, with right-wing commentators slamming the U.S. president and his envoy while members of the opposition took shots at Netanyahu. The Israeli prime minister is running for another term, and the election must be held by the end of October.

Channel 14 News journalist Yinon Magal, a close ally of Netanyahu’s, called Trump “a loser,” referred to Kushner and Steve Witkoff as “the two little Jews who sold out their brothers in Israel,” and Vice President JD Vance as a “lowlife,” according to an X translation.

Kushner currently serves on the administration’s “Board of Peace,” handling high-level diplomatic negotiations in Europe and the Middle East. Witkoff serves as the U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East.

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Shimon Riklin, another Channel 14 pundit, called the U.S. “treacherous,” according to an X translation.

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Tal Meir, a right-wing Channel 14 anchor, accused Kushner and Witkoff of betraying Israel “at the moment of truth.”

“You are part of these people,” she reportedly said. “We are here, among other things, to defend you, too. In the end, this is your real home, and we are guarding it for you and for your future generations. And you turn your backs on us like this? Simply losers.”

A prominent right wing commentator in Israel is denouncing Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff for negotiating the Iran deal and turning their backs on their “real home” pic.twitter.com/1OYi7yaY2G

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The ire wasn’t only directed at the Trump administration, as Netanyahu took a beating from his political rivals.

“Israel is paying the price of Netanyahu’s hubris and blindness, and the price of the manipulations that he tried to pull on Trump,” former Prime Minister Ehud Barak said Monday, according to The Associated Press. “Iran emerged stronger; Israel emerged weaker. That is Netanyahu’s strategic responsibility. He failed.”

Yair Lapid, who will challenge Netanyahu in the next elections, said the deal was “one of the most shocking failures in Israel’s foreign and security policy … entirely registered in Netanyahu’s name,” The AP reported.

“It can be fixed, it must be fixed,” he wrote. “Netanyahu can no longer fix it, we will do it.”

Netanyahu’s Likud Party has reportedly scrapped campaign ads that highlight the prime minister’s close ties to the U.S. and Trump.