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Yad Vashem chairman: Brazilian president’s comments are ‘extreme distortion of Holocaust’
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Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan seen during a visit of Britain's Foreign Secretary James Cleverly at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial's museum in Jerusalem on September 11, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Dani Dayan, the chairman of Yad Vashem, says that comments by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva comparing Israeli action in Gaza to the Holocaust are blatant antisemitism.
“The shameful words of the president of Brazil are an outrageous combination of hatred and ignorance,” tweets Dayan, a native of Argentina, noting that it is clearly antisemitic under the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism.
“Comparing a country fighting against a murderous terror organization to the actions of the Nazis in the Holocaust is worthy of all condemnation,” he adds. “It is sad that the president of Brazil has stooped to such a level of extreme distortion of the Holocaust.”
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