Foreign affairs: Andre Lajst, executive director of StandWithUS Brazil, said that Lula’s Holocaust comments were sharply criticized in Brazilian media, and also in left-wing circles inside Brazil.
Among the priorities of the G20 include reform of the United Nations and other multilateral organizations, fighting climate change, and reducing hunger and poverty in the world.
Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian Nichols told reporters that sharing ideas on the conflict in Gaza would be "crucial to the conversation" between Lula and Blinken.
The first lady called for the world to condemn the murder of Gazan children.
After Lula on Sunday compared Israel's war on Gaza to Hitler's treatment of Jews, Israel said on Monday that Lula is not welcome in the Middle Eastern country until he takes back the comments.
Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan condemned Brazil's president's statements saying they "exhibit clear antisemitism" and unacceptable.
Lula made these statements in an interview with journalists at a hotel he was staying at in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Politician José Genoino made the comments during an appearance on a left-wing TV show last week where he was discussing Lula’s support for South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ
Other countries, while strongly supporting a ceasefire in Gaza, can see that accusing Israel of intending to destroy the Palestinian people is a step too far.
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