‘Akin to Holocaust’: Lula da Silva slams Israeli carnage in Gaza
The Holocaust is the term used to describe the genocide of European Jews during World War II at the hands of Nazi Germany led by Adolf Hitler. Read More
Addis Ababa: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Sunday February 18, 2024 accused the Israeli Occupation Forces of committing genocide against the Palestinians, describing the Zionist carnage in Gaza akin to Holocaust.
The Holocaust is the term used to describe the genocide of European Jews during World War II at the hands of Nazi Germany led by Adolf Hitler.
The Zionists exploit the term to justify its war crimes and massacre of Palestinians, and also use it to garner sympathy and support to legitimise its occupation.
“What’s happening in the Gaza Strip isn’t a war, it’s a genocide,” Lula told reporters in Addis Ababa where he was attending an African Union summit on Sunday.
“It’s not a war of soldiers against soldiers. It’s a war between a highly prepared army and women and children,” added the Brazilian president.
“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.”
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“What Israel is doing in Gaza is like what Hitler did to the Jews.”
— sarah (@sahouraxo) February 18, 2024
—Brazil’s President Lula da Silvapic.twitter.com/hCrRJsfP5J
The Palestinians have hailed the Lula’s comments who described the remarks as "an accurate description" of what people were facing in the Gaza Strip that it controls.
Israel Fumes
The Netanyahu-led far right Zionist government in Israel however is fuming over Lula's comparision of its Gaza carnage with holocaust.
"The comparison between Israel to holocaust of the Nazis and Hitler is crossing a red line," Ntanyahu said in a statement.
Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant called Lula's comments "outrageous and abhorrent".
"Brazil has stood with Israel for years. President Lula supports a "genocidal terrorist organisation -- Hamas", and in doing so brings great shame to his people, and violates the values of the free world", he wrote on social media site X.
Antisemitism
Israel also has a habit of accusing people dondeming its brutality against humanity of "Antisemitism". Rejcting this Prof Zenkus of Columbia University said:
"Arabs didn't perpetrate genocide against Jewish ppl: Europeans did. Palestinians didn't turn boats with Jews escaping the holocaust away: The US did.
"Antisemitism is not a creation of Palestinians and Muslims. Wìhy are they being punished for the crimes of Germans and Americans?" he asked on social media platform X.
Lula, a prominent voice for the global south whose country currently holds the rotating presidency of the G20, has been condemning the Israeli carnage against Palestinians in Gaza since Oct 7 when the Zionist forces launched military offensive following Hamas' Operation Al Aqsa Flood - a retaliatory move against occupation and decades of provocation by the occupation forces.
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