Published February 19, 2024
Brazilian President Lula da Silva has joined the chorus of left-wing leaders denouncing Israel’s military campaign in Gaza as a form of Nazi-inspired genocide.
Speaking with reporters in the Ethiopian capital of Addis-Addaba, the 78-year-old Brazilian socialist argued that the Israeli military’s campaign against Hamas “isn’t a war, it’s a genocide”.
He declared:
It’s not a war of soldiers against soldiers. It’s a war between a highly prepared army and women and children.[…]
What’s happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people hasn’t happened at any other moment in history. Actually, it has happened: when Hitler decided to kill the Jews.
Such remarks were immediately condemned by Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who wrote on the X platform:
platform:
The words of the president of Brazil are shameful and serious. This is about trivializing the Holocaust and trying to harm the Jewish people and Israel’s right to defend itself.
Comparing Israel to the Nazi Holocaust and Hitler is crossing a red line. Israel fights for its defense and securing its future until complete victory and it does so while upholding international law. I decided with Foreign Minister Israel Katz to summon the Brazilian ambassador to Israel for a stern conversation immediately.
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SOURCE: www.redstate.com
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Published February 18, 2024
Israel has condemned Brazil’s president after he accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, comparing its actions to the Holocaust.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Israel’s military campaign was between a “highly prepared army and women and children”.
Israel’s foreign minister described Lula’s comments as antisemitic and said he was “persona non grata” in the country until he retracted them.
The main Jewish organisation in Brazil has also criticised Lula’s comments.
Speaking from an African Union summit in Ethiopia, Lula said: “What is happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people has no parallel in other historical moments. In fact, it did exist when Hitler decided to kill the Jews.
“It’s not a war of soldiers against soldiers. It’s a war between a highly prepared army and women and children.”
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SOURCE: www.bbc.com
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Reprimanding ambassador at Yad Vashem, foreign minister says president will have to apologize before being welcomed to Israel
Brazilian ambassador to Israel Frederico Meyer, left, and Foreign Minister Israel Katz tour the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem, February 19, 2024. (Michael Dimenstein/GPO)
Published February 19, 2024
Foreign Minister Israel Katz declared Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva persona non grata on Monday over his comparison of Israel’s war against Hamas to the Holocaust.
Standing at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, Katz, the son of Holocaust survivors, told Brazil’s Ambassador Federico Mayer that Israel “will not forget and we will not forgive.”
“In my name, and in the name of all Israeli citizens,” said Katz, “tell President Lula that he is persona non grata in Israel until he retracts his statements.”
“I brought you to a place that testifies more than anything else to what the Nazis and Hitler did to the Jews, including members of my family,” he continued. “The comparison between Israel’s just war against Hamas and the atrocities of Hitler and the Nazis is a disgrace and a severe antisemitic attack.”
