Footage has emerged of a popular Jewish singer using a racial slur against President Barack Obama at a concert in Jerusalem.

Mordechai Ben David, a 65-year-old Brooklynite from the Hasidic sect of Judaism, was performing a song about peace on December 29 when he launched an attack on the outgoing U.S. leader, calling him a “kushi”—a derogatory Hebrew term for a black person.

“Do you know when there will be peace? In a few weeks, when there will be a new president in the United States and the kushi goes home,” he said in Hebrew, according to a translation by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, to rapturous applause from the crowd. In ancient Hebrew, “kushi” referred to Ethiopians and also black Africans, …