RIO DE JANEIRO — A new building housing the first Palestinian Authority embassy in the Western Hemisphere was inaugurated in Brasilia. The PA’s envoy to Brazil, Ibrahim Alzeben, led Wednesday’s event, which was attended by left-wing Brazilian government officials, representatives of Arab countries and members of the local Arab community. A week earlier, Alzeben attended…
An influential Brazilian ex-governor and government minister compared the media treatment of ex-President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva to that of the Nazis against Jews and other minorities during the Holocaust. “The media makes Lula the Jew of the decade, like the Nazis made Jews and communists the target of their hatred against social democracy,”…
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was absent for the third year in a row at a Holocaust event that was even attended by the Palestinians. The ambassador of the Palestinian Authority in Brazil joined several Jewish and non-Jewish officials to commemorate the Holocaust at a ceremony in Brazil’s capital. “I could not…
Israel made a “mistake” in naming former settler leader Dani Dayan as its ambassador to Brazil, a Brazilian official said. “I think it was a misstep by the Israeli government,” Marco Aurelio Garcia, diplomatic adviser to the Brazilian president, told Brazilian public television on Friday, a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said publicly…
A Brazilian publisher has decided to cancel the release of a new printing of “Mein Kampf” after strong pressure from the Jewish community and scholars. Editing company Edipro reportedly decided on Thursday to call off a first printing run of 1,000 copies, saying it was an old translation to Portuguese from the 1930s, with no…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said if Brazil won’t approve former settler leader Dani Dayan as its ambassador, Israel won’t offer another diplomat. Israel’s Channel 2 News reported Netanyahu’s comments Wednesday. According to i24news, Israel not having an ambassador in Brazil would represent a “de facto downgrade in relations” between the two countries. Netanyahu’s apparent…
An Brazilian columnist is in hot water for calling into question Jewish loyalties in an ongoing diplomatic row with Israel. “The cordial coexistence here granted to the Jewish community is threatened,” wrote Janio de Freitas, in the fight over over Israel’s appointment of former settler leader Dani Dayan as ambassador to Brasilia. De Freitas, a…
RIO DE JANEIRO — A group of 40 retired Brazilian diplomats signed a statement against Israel’s controversial appointment of former settler leader Dani Dayan as ambassador in Brasila. The career diplomats believe that protocol was bypassed since it was not preceded by any communication with the Brazilian Foreign Ministry or any presentation of Dayan’s credentials…
