Shmuley Boteach, a controversial American rabbi, is a colourful figure who has made recent headlines due to his unfettered support for Israel’s war on Gaza, emerging as a peculiar defender of its genocidal actions in the besieged Palestinian territory. Beyond defending Israel, Shmuley combines other ventures in his public persona, with his career spanning a close relationship with the gifted but problematic late American popstar Michael Jackson to collaboration with the 2024 presidential campaign of Robert F Kennedy and even a ‘kosher sex’ empire involving his daughter Chana Boteach. He is als…