Mick Hartley

Brazil's President Lula appears to be in the grip of antisemitic mania. From the JC:

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva claimed on Wednesday that over 12 million children have died in Gaza and Israel due to the nearly six-month war.

Citing documents circulating online, the leftist leader said that "12.3 million children died in the Gaza Strip and in Israel because of the war," speaking at a government conference on the rights of children and adolescents in the capital Brasilia, Israel's Army Radio reported on Thursday.

The combined population of Israel and Gaza in 2023 was around 11 million. The figure cited by Lula is also about 375 times the number of deaths in Gaza put out by the Hamas-run health ministry during the war, which itself doesn't distinguish between combatants and noncombatants and whose accuracy has been questioned by experts.

He's already compared Gaza to the Holocaust. Of course.