Israeli foreign minister declares Brazilian president persona non grata Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz has declared Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva persona non grata. He said this before a conversation with the Brazilian ambassador, who was summoned to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum and Research Complex in Jerusalem after the Brazilian president had compared Israel with Nazi Germany. “I would like to tell the president that we will not forgive him and that he is an undesirable person in Israel until he retracts [his words] and apologizes,” the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper quotes the minister as saying. Amid tensions,…
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