context1: Kaufman is an outspoken opponent of hunting with <strong>hounds</strong>. In 2004 he was assaulted by a group of pro-<strong>fox</strong> hunting campaigners and claimed that he was subjected to anti-Semitic taunts. These he said he found ironic as he had recently been accused of being a self-hating Jew by member of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
context2: He comes out of the population of pariah dogs of sub-Saharan Africa—also called bush dogs or senji--and is also closely related to the Sloughi of the Maghreb. Despite morphological similarities, mitochondrial DNA evidence shows that he is only very distantly related to other sight <strong>hounds</strong>. Azawakh have a rare glucose isomerase allele (GPIB) that occurs only in <strong>foxes</strong>, jackals, Italian wolves, Sloughi dogs and a handful of other quite unrelated rare dogs found mostly in Japan.