Before calling for a boycott, Genoino had a pro-Israel record – 01/25/2024 – Panel

Criticized for having preached a boycott of companies linked to Jews last Saturday (20), former federal deputy José Genoino (PT-SP) has a history of statements that are much more favorable to the State of Israel and its people.

In a speech to the House in April 2002, for example, he defended “the legitimacy and security of the State of Israel and the State of Palestine.”

Although he criticized the “genocide” carried out by the government of then right-wing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, he highlighted that this did not mean hostility towards Jews.

“We do not confuse the Jewish people. We do not confuse the Jewish nation with what is happening, especially under the leadership of the Ariel Sharon government,” he declared.

The criticism he now suffers from Jewish entities such as Conib is precisely because he defended reprisals against Jewish companies because of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.

Genoino’s statements on the topic reflect the arc of his political trajectory in recent decades. From the 1990s until 2005, when he was hit by the monthly allowance, he was the most moderate face of the PT. After the scandal, however, he began to radicalize his positions.

In a party openly hostile to Israel, he was accustomed to making statements congratulating the Jewish State on important dates, such as the 50th anniversary of its creation, in April 1998. “The Jewish people were deeply sacrificed, massacred by the political and ideological phenomenon of Nazi fascism,” he said.

In November 1995, he also expressed his condolences from the Chamber’s rostrum for the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. A few months earlier, he had congratulated Israel on its national day.

In 1993, he made two statements welcoming the Oslo Agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). In 1992, he expressed condolences to Israel following an attack on the country’s embassy in Buenos Aires.

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