Combat Antisemitism Movement claimed that a
million people were present
Many of the tens of thousands of protesters who took to the streets in São Paulo, Brazil, on Sunday in support of the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro—including Bolsonaro himself—were waving Israeli flags as a gesture of defiance against the country’s current leader, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Bolsonaro called for the rally
in response to a police investigation into his role in attacks on government
buildings by his supporters in January after he lost the election.
A research group at the
University of São Paulo estimated 185,000 people participated, while the
Brazilian military police said the crowd was larger, according to the
Associated Press. Others, including Sacha Roytman, CEO of the Combat
Antisemitism Movement, claimed that a million people were present.
Da Silva “has received
widespread criticism at home for comparing Israel’s military offensive in Gaza
to the Holocaust,” according to AP.
We'd like to extend a huge thank you to all the fine people of Brazil who came out in support of Israel. It means a lot.
— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) February 26, 2024
A huge opposition demonstration led by Bolsonaro (the former president), who pulled out the Israeli flag as soon as they arrived at the demonstration.… pic.twitter.com/1CyNBUSGmx
Last week, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz declared Lula persona non grata over his comparison of Israel’s war against Hamas to the Nazi genocide.
Katz, the son of Holocaust
survivors, told Brazil’s Ambassador Federico Mayer during a tour of the Yad
Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem that Israel “will not forget and we will
not forgive” until the president expresses contrition.
“I want to tell you here that
the remarks made by President Lula when he compared the just war of the State
of Israel against Hamas which murdered and massacred Jews and Hitler and the
Nazis are an utter disgrace, and a severe antisemitic attack on the Jewish
people and the State of Israel,” Katz told the ambassador.
A day earlier, Lula told
reporters during a trip to Ethiopia that, “What’s happening in the Gaza Strip
isn’t a war, it’s a genocide. 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.”
Lula subsequently recalled his
ambassador to Israel as bilateral relations between the two countries went into
a full-blown crisis.
Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, who has accused Lula of being a “virulent antisemite,” told
visiting American Jewish leaders last week that the Brazilian leader had
disgraced the memory of those murdered in the Holocaust.
“The words of the president of
Brazil are shameful and alarming. This is about trivializing the Holocaust and
trying to harm the Jewish people and Israel’s right to defend itself,” said
Netanyahu.
“Israel fights for its defense
and securing its future until complete victory and it does so while upholding
international law,” he added.
Yesterday at the huge protest in Brazil 🇧🇷, former president @jairbolsonaro appeared with Israeli 🇮🇱 flag, as a response to president @LulaOficial's antisemitism 👇
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) February 26, 2024
Thank you @jairbolsonaro. Thank you Brazilian people 🙏
🇧🇷❤️🇮🇱
pic.twitter.com/b0C1tMIjj7
Menachem Wecker, United with Israel, 26-2-2024
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