Colombia's left-wing President Gustavo Petro became the latest Latin American leader to grotesquely compare Israel to the Nazis. On Thursday, Petro announced Colombia would no longer purchase weapons from Israel claiming:
Asking for food, more than 100 Palestinians were killed by Netanyahu. This is called genocide and is reminiscent of the Holocaust even if the world powers do not like to recognize it. The world must block Netanyahu.
Petro made these claims following allegations from Hamas that Israel fired upon Palestinian civilians in Gaza City awaiting food and humanitarian aid. Of course, these allegations have not been substantiated.
But let us suppose for argument's sake the IDF did deliberately fire upon Palestinian civilians in this particular instance. That's a far cry from genocide and bears utterly no resemblance to the Holocaust. Genocide is a deliberate campaign to render a specific group of people extinct from the face of the Earth. If what Israel is doing constitutes an act of genocide, then by that standard every military in the world would be guilty of the same. But alas Petro is singling out Israel.
Petro likening Israel to the Nazis comes less than two weeks after Brazil's leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva did the same. While speaking to reporters at the African Union summit in Ethiopia, Lula claimed, "What is happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people has no parallel in other historical moments. In fact, it did exist when Hitler decided to kill the Jews." As I pointed out at the time, Lula has a long history of anti-Semitism and welcomed the Holocaust denying former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Brazilian soil.
As for Petro, this is not the first time he used Nazi analogies since Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7th. Not only did Petro refuse to condemn Hamas, but he claimed:
I cannot defend an organization that sustains the fusion between Religion and State because we fight it in our own country, and because the vision of those who believe they are the chosen people and superior race leads to the massacre of other peoples.
They are resurrecting Hitler in the times of the climate crisis and he returns exactly the same with his concentration camps and the complete destruction of the peoples. Hitler is reborn as a practice of political and economic power, on the very division of humanity, on its weaknesses and its fears. The fear of the different is the father of Hitler.
It isn't Israel who is resurrecting Hitler, it is the Gustavo Petro and Lula da Silvas of the world who are invoking the Fuhrer. They do so with the aim and objective of not only vilifying Israel, but of willfully promoting hatred against their own Jewish populations.
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