For comparing Israel’s war against Palestinian militants, known as, Hamas, to the Holocaust, Foreign Minister Israel Katz declared Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva persona non grata on Monday.
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| Frederico Meyer (l), Brazilian ambassador to Israel, and Foreign Minister Israel Katz tour the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem, February 19, 2024. Photo: Michael Dimenstein/GPO via THE TIMES OF ISRSEL |
Katz, who is son of Holocaust survivor, standing at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, opened up to Brazil’s Ambassador Federico Mayer and said, Israel “will not forget and we will not forgive.”
According to Katz, “In my name, and in the name of all Israeli citizens.
“Tell President Lula that he is persona non grata in Israel until he retracts his statements.”
He added, “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.
“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.”
According to britannica.com:
Holocaust, the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. The Germans called this “the final solution to the Jewish question.”
