Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is on an unprecedented and shameful crusade against Israel. In less than a week he has issued a strong series of critiques, arguing that Israel's right to self-defense is actually an act of genocide against Palestine.

Far from honoring the message of the Brazilian flag ("Order and Progress"), Lula has returned to power, for the third time, with a retrograde and radical political vision. His alignment with Russia, Palestine, Venezuela and Cuba goes beyond ideology and borders on a defense of international crime.

During his recent tour across Africa, Brazil's head of state took the opportunity to compare Israel's conduct in the war in Gaza with the Holocaust that killed 6 million Jews, an aberrant and malicious analogy. The causes, numbers and lethality of the two events are not even remotely comparable. This type of approach strengthens a dangerous anti-Jewish narrative and adds pain to the nation victimized by Hamas's vicious attacks against civilians.

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