Brazil has recalled its ambassador to Israel, and Israel says Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is not welcome in the country in a diplomatic rift after Lula compared Israel’s military campaign in Gaza to the Holocaust.
Dawisson Belem Lopes, a Professor of International and Comparative Politics at The Federal University of Minas Gerais, joins Al Jazeera’s live from Belo Horizonte in Brazil.
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Although Chile, Honduras, Columbia & Bolivia have already cut ties to Israel and have beat Lula to the punch, Lula was probably dragging his feet on this issue due to the sizeable Jewish population (~150,000), which live predominantly in the Sao Paolo area who probably ferry themselves to their homeland on their Right of Return. However, after probably some careful consideration and knowledge of the internal topography of Brazil, Lula may have come to the conclusion that these Jewish drifters have only exacerbated the misery and the size of the favelas or ghettos in their Brazilian hometowns. In ruling such a large and diverse nation as Brazil, Lula must find common ground between its various citizens such as the 5,000,000 Germans (who presumably came when Germany was destroyed after WWII) and ~50,000 Japanese who fled after the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the USA dropped their atomic bombs. As the President of Brazil, Lula must find commonalities among his electorate to rule humanely, intelligently and with heart. Dragging his feet no more, Lula has, finally, raised his voice in solidarity and what a melodious sound it brings!❤ So proud to be Brazilian at this moment in history.
Não são os judeus, mas um rebanho de evangelicos retardados
Accept my love Mr Lula and citizens of Brazil
Ftom Pakistan
The majority of the World is by now recognizing Isr@el for what it is: A fascist terror-sponsoring, supremacist apartheid regime.
PUBLIC WATCHING 👀 AROUND THE WORLD 🌍 FROM EVERY SINGLE CORNER 🤯🤯🤯🛑🛑🛑🆓🆓🔜🔜🔜🗣️🗣️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇵🇸🇵🇸🗣️🗣️🗣️🇬🇧🇵🇸
In 2016, Yair Golan, the Israeli general and deputy chief of staff of the IDF, sparked a controversy during a speech at Yom HaShoah. Golan stated: “If there is something that frightens me about the memory of the Holocaust, it is seeing the abhorrent processes that took place in Europe, and Germany in particular, some 70, 80 or 90 years ago, and finding manifestations of these processes here among us in 2016.”[
God bless Israel, God bless Palestine
We are at a point in History where you have to speak what others want and the way they want it, otherwise you and even your country is cancelled. You are free to commit genocide, but not free to call it out. Amazing…
Well said sir. Israel is trying to bully others not to speak out and also take action
Respect for Lula and brasil❤
India, UK, USA, Israel, Ukraine
Israel terrorizing Palestinian people for the last 75 years. Thank you president Lula . You are the best president of this world. Great leader. Great humanitarian. Bravo Lula.
Israel, never mind these kind of people… You have a more important thing to attend to…
But he is saying the truth.
A few years ago I spoke with Jewish Brazilians in Jlm. They said that relations between Arabs and Jews remain good as always, radicals notwithstanding. They also reported strong disapproval of the Occupation, especially among younger Jews. This is not the first diplomatic tussle between BR and IL. I happen to admire Lula and I agree with him here.
Free Palestine ❤
Thanks Brazil 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Netanyahu, Biden & Co are the same as Hitler. Genocidal freaks.
Lula is right about this, and a complete coward about the Ukraine invasion.
This Jewish hit piece was pathetic even by Al ja terrorists standards
If the Jewish population in Brazil don’t like Lula’s comments,leave Brazil and go back to Israel
Lula speaks the truth, and anyone who speaks the truth is being hated.. shame.on Israel! Comments like this will not reach the core of their evil acts, they are just making excuses and drama to get sympathy. Lame excuses for their genocidal acts
“You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all, but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.” – Chomsky
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Se a verdade ofende a Satanyahu então que se rompa as relações diplomáticas. Já estamos fartos de ouvir mentiras e discursos de ódio. Queremos Paz, Ordem e Progresso 🇧🇷🏳️
Most South Americans are with Palestine 🇵🇸.
Lula is hero.
The victims of holocaust must not be made a reason for genocide today. That’s bizzare. All lives are worthy.
Nazism must stop! Free Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸💪🏼
Thank you Brazilian for standing with the people of Palestine. President Lula is the best!!!
Brazilian only said the facts truth not calendar in hospital Brazilian r smart n genius. Setanyehu, zlonist n all people who stand for them for bables kiIIers woman kiIIers who doesn’t care about bombin houses, hospitals, schools, churches, mosques all of them are not human don’t even deserve for this world but the lowest place in heII God sees u n the world witnessing how evil u r how terrible human u r FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA IS NOT FOR HOLOKAUST REFUGEES FREE PALESTINE
Thank you President Lula for being voice of voiceless. Interesting to see that BRICS except India supports the efforts for stopping the genocide. Being an ex-colony of British Empire I wish they would have taken a different political and moral stance.
Braziliaans president is correct with what he’ saying about Israël,Israël is evil by what they do,they forget what happened in Europe??
Most of the Brazilians came from Europe, Asia and Africa, this is not your land. go back home.
I’ve never seen a diplomatic fiasco as this one, first Israel accused brazilians from participating on Hezbollah, it ended up the dude is just from a pagode band and was playing pagode somewhere, we even joke here that Mossad mistook Hezbollah for ‘Rebolar’ which mean sway, dance or whatever lol
Then they call our embassator into a public press conference without previous notice of the content and publicly shame Brazilian embassator and declares Lula persona non-grata in Israel in public…
Disgusting tactics of a backless society that must be sustained by the hegemon
FREE PALESTINE!
Thank you Brazil for standing up for Truth and Humanity.
The Zionists will drag us down to the depths of human depravity, before we see any changes for the better.
The Zionist Agenda and their powerful lobby groups have influence in many spheres of our society, from economics and politics to judiciary, military and more. Unless the Agenda and the Zionists are stopped the world will not have peace.
HELLO SIR!!
LATIN AMERICAN GOT ITS OWN PROBLEM ,Y AKNOW? AS SUCH ,THERE SHOULD BE NON ROOM FOR,,INTERFERENCE WITH NATIONS,,THAT DOES NOT WANT TO LIVE IN PEACE!
THEY OUGHT TO TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES FIRST,AND NOT MEDLLE WITH FOREIGNER AFFAIRS
After this, the Brazilian Parliament is moving the impeachment and revocation protocol against the president for the irresponsibility and threat to national security.
countries that respect international law should stop relating with Israel, reason is genocidal Israel don’t regard international law
I STAND WITH LULA, SIMPLE AS THAT.
Bravo to Lula!!!
This is gaining momentum.. Go, BRICS!!!!!
Lula ❤️❤️, Israel is a fake garbage country that exists only from American tax dollars
YOU SPEAK TO TRUTH SIR LULA.
Lula is right! The Holocaust on the Palestinian People is a warcrime.
Lula is right to cut his diplomatic relation with israel. Europe should take example instead of bla bla on human right, justice etc
“Brazil has become a prominent player on the international scene” under Lula? Pundits on Al Jazeera are there for their 5 min. of ‘fame’ and a hefty payout!
What did the Idiot Lula ever said about his muthafooker Putin’s war in Ukraine? Why would the mightiest ever country on Earth care about the so called global South? You can all for now suuuuck up to Xi and Putin’s tiny wankers but remember that you will be crushed.
Respect to Pres. Lula!
Wow, did this professor just say that a small tribe wields a hugely disproportionate level of economic/political influence, even in Brazil? In America he would get cancelled and out of a job by tomorrow.
Isso é verdade, está o ocorrendo uma histeria coletiva
Bibi is only 0.1% what what Lula is. And he got that 0.1% by lying.
The US is using all Its influence to sustain the Israeli colonization.
Free Palestine
Israel: STOP TELLING THE TRUTH AND GIVING ACCURATE COMPARISONS OF WHAT WE DO REEEEEEEEEEE
In summary, he is not a coward!!!
Disilva the right true president
Brazil is impotent and unimportant. Al jazeera is hate speech that hates human life.
Lula makes me proud to be Brazilian
Thank you Brazil!
America is for Palestine. News stations n some social media are Israel cheerleaders. But the American youth parents informing us about how evil these acts are. So we decided to dedicate every minute to erase the lies Israel spreads. We are Americas future n we know the alleged Jewish individuals are not jews by blood. We know the alleged Jewish individuals are land robbers. We know the alleged jewish individuals have ignited their end. # AmericasFutureknowstheTruthPlo.
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Lula proved he has a moral compass, as he highlighted the issue of Israel’s propaganda against UNRWA, the ONLY agency providing aid to Gaza!!! He rightly said ‘where is these leaders’ HUMANITY’????’!!! Bravo Lula!!!! Proud to be Brazilian!
Lula is not against Israel, he is against Netanyahu, the butcher
Viva Palestine
Israel has nothing to offer to Brazil
THE SATANIC CULT HAS BOUGHT IMMUNITY THIS MUST BE STOPPED 👺 EVICT ISRAEL FROM THE MIDDLE EAST 🙏
The US IS THE HEAD OF THE SNAKE CONTROLLING THE SATANIC GENOCIDE 👺
As a German, I have to congratulate President Lula for his courage! Unfortunately in my country (Germany) we are living under censorship, if I say that I am against the killing of innocent people in Gaza, they accuse me of anti-Semitism and I could be arrested for that. The brainwashing that the media and politicians do throughout Europe is completely ridiculous.
Lula is right. bibi is a butcher.
most brazilians don’t agree at all with Lula
American politicans, meanwhile are still fan girling over Israel…
I wonder if they remember the USS Liberty!
Hey am from South America and a stand with Brazilian
Israel is the Antichrist nation waiting for the devil to come back
President Lula told the truth
Lula is more braver than Arab leaders. Are Arab Leaders even men?
It is a Holocaust and should be known as the Palestinian Holocaust, if the truth is antisemitic, that’s Netanyahu’s problem.
“israel” makes the Nazıs look like a bunch of Saints.
Thanks SNP. The difference between Cameron 2014 & Cameron 2024 are : Then he was PM who can make his decision but now he wants to PM so he has depend on Zionist lobbyist…
Israel is never a state.The fact they dont recognise world laws we term this Zionist as creatures that doesnt belongs to earth.Even animals belongs to earth.Zionist are dwellers of Hellfire.Their god is Dajjal or Anti Christ.
BRICS doing more for Palestine than Arab leaders ! What a shame for the for our ummah 🤦🏾♀️❤️🇵🇸
HOLOCUST GOING ON IN PALESTINE , ONLY STUPIDI LEADERS WHO CANT SEE WHAT IT IS HAPPENING , STOP GENOCIDE IN GAZA. YOU WILL NEVER SEE PEACE WITH YOUR DOUBLE CITIZEN. STOP HOLOCUST NOW, STOP OCCUPATION IMMEDIATELLY
*Immaculate cremation:* A technique was devised during WWII in which 9000 corpses were cremated per shift, in crematoria with a maximum daily capacity of 24 fueled with coal, without the use of any fuel at all in a thorough process that leaves no ashes or bone fragments. That is one corpse every 3.2 seconds compared to 5 hours per corpse the conventional way. Nine thousand corpses laid out head to toe in single file form a line 9 miles long (daily) and take 900 tons of coal to reduce to ashes. A line of corpses 6250 miles long (total) requires 600,000 tons of coal to reduce to ashes. Excluding those shipped east of the Urals that did _not_ die and ancestors from several generations back that were _already_ dead leaves a discrepancy of greater than 5,950,000. Published figures for Europe reveal that a population of 8,939,608 in 1939 grew to 9,372,666 by 1945 with a net _increase_ of 422,058 persons. _The six million campaign first attempted after WWI quickly faltered when it was revealed that this figure equated to the entire population of this people, all of whom were alive and well, but having learned from the failure of the initial endeavour this campaign was successfully relaunched with saturation coverage following WWII._ Denial is unlawful and prompted by its inquisition disbelievers are subject to imprisonment. Wartime demands for skilled personnel were enormous. None were wasted. After the war from displaced persons camps they arrived in the USA, Canada and other countries. High attrition rate of unskilled Russian POWs tasked crematoria beyond its capacity. Theirs were not perquisites including medical, evening theatre, Olympic-sized swimming pool and Sunday football on a grassy field.
Lula is a disgusting illiterate, corrupt, ex-convict who appointed the federal judges that pardoned he’s involvement in the biggest corruption scandal in the history of humanity, the same corrupt judges Lula’s government appointed to be in charge of the Supreme Court; cancelled the conviction of three major tribunals Courts that had found Lula guilty of corruption and released him and made him president again 🤢 🤮
My country , my president 🇧🇷❤🇧🇷
Not long ago, we Brazilians decided to support the criminal Tramp, the devil Satan, Sodom and Gomorrah and long live Judas Iscariotes.
Zionists insist on keeping holocaust unique because their raison d’etre is to covertly banish Palestinians by genocide since 1948
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Calling out zionists on their decades old bs holocaust excuse. The world is finally saying enough is enough. Just because they put billions on their holocaust industry over the years that doesn’t mean they should have carte blanche to do whatever they want. Game over.
From what I can see, most Jewish people in Bresil do not support the Israeli government’s actions. They do not seem, I think, sold-out or brainwashed like some. Note that well over 50% of Jewish people worldwide (outside Israel) do not support occupation and the human rights violations against Palestinians.
Viva Brazil. God Bless you ❤❤❤
Just to contextualize to the foreign people, in Brazil, Lula’s speech is a crime, following the Lei do Impeachment (Lawn of Impeachment)
Art. 5º São crimes de responsabilidade contra a existência política da União:
(These are crimes of responsibility against the political existence of the Union)
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3 – cometer ato de hostilidade contra nação estrangeira, expondo a República ao perigo da guerra, ou comprometendo-lhe a neutralidade;
(Commit hostility act against foreign nation, exposing the Republic to the danger of war, or compromising it’s neutrality)
And the repercussion of his speach in Brazil is not good, a large amount of people, even his central-left wing supporters disapproved his speech, which lead to a impeachment request, that it’s already at 130 signatures. Even if the request doesn’t go further, that is totally disastrous to Lula’s political career in Brazil.
President Lula did not mention the Holocaust in his speeches. Lula compared the hatred that Hitler had for the Jews with the hatred that Netanyahu has for the Palestinians and this hatred has the same proportionality leading thousands of Palestinians to death. Do not spread unreasonable lies or make up lies. Listen to what President Lula said.
Don’t be fooled. Lula is a corrupt man and a liar. He’s just using this narrative to achieve some personal goal
Words are far less important than what the Israelis have actually been doing to the Palestinians.
Finally a president with COJONES that is not afraid to speak the truth 😎
USS LIBERTY INCIDENT.
GAZA …..a warsaw ghetto for palestinian
genocide called war by israhell…..
netanyahu ……hitler wearing the star of david
Who_wants_to_visit_the-occupied_land-the_Apartheid_state?
I bet billions of people on this planet would love to be termed “person non grata” in Israel because none of us have any intention of visiting a country committing genocide, starvation, and land theft – except of course, US politicians, corporate food chains, and tech firms like Amazon and Google.
Both nations have the right to exist! Palestine is wrong and has blood on its hands, Israel is wrong and has blood on it’s hand!!!! Enough is enough, make peace and learn to reside next to each other. God loves all kinds of people. Don’t kill in the name of God, don’t steal in the name of God, blasfêmia 🖤
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