CORRECTED: Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar Attacks Discusses Heter Mechira At YU

There are some from the "kibbutzim and the moshavim who sell their land
to goyim, and this is not correct."
        – Sefardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, speaking at Yeshiva University in New York City today.

This is diametrically opposed to the position of his mentor, former Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who has been a strong defender of heter mechira.

[Hat Tip and quoted by: Tzippora.]

UPDATE 3:40 PM CDT – YU's Rabbi Yosef Blau was at the talk and has this to say:

I heard the talk and he did not say that the heter mechirah was not valid. The person who reported misunderstood what Rabbi Amar said.