OAN’s Katie Smith
12:26 PM – Monday, February 19, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of being a “vicious anti-Semite.”
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On Monday, Israeli Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz insisted that Lula would not be allowed to enter Israel until he recanted his comments about the Israel-Hamas war.
Lula likened Israel’s war against Hamas to the Holocaust and supported South Africa’s claims that Israel was committing genocide.
Katz said Lula’s comments about Israel’s war against Hamas were a serious anti-Semitic attack.
“We will not forget or forgive,” Katz said. “I believe that the President’s statement is unworthy of the glorious nation of Brazil, and unworthy of the deep friendship that exists between the State of Israel and the State of Brazil. I therefore urge him to retract it and apologize. and until then he is persona non grata in the state of Israel, the state of the Jewish people.”
October 7thth2023 marked the most gruesome attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
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