“It doesn’t deserve to be a State”

Itaipu’s advisor and PT national secretary of planning and finance, Gleide Andrade, called Israel a “murderer” and criticized the Israeli reaction in the conflict against Hamas in a series of posts on the social network X. For Andrade, Israel is a “ shame on humanity” and “does not deserve to be a state”. “Intolerance, cowardice and execution of the Palestinian people. The state of Israel is a shame for humanity, anyone who kills children does not deserve respect, they do not deserve to be a state. I don’t know what’s worse, the carnage they do to Palestinian children or the abject consent of the USA”, said the counselor on social media on Day 22.

Also on the 22nd, she published a photo of a child believed to be Palestinian and supposedly in the area of ​​conflict with the following caption: “This is one of the terrorists that the State of Israel is exterminating. More than 3,000 dead Palestinian children were identified, along with thousands more rotting under the rubble and cruelty of the USA and Israel. #IsraelTerorrist #FreePalestine.”

“The Brazilian intervention is very important! Enough of this genocide. It is a crime to have so many dead and orphaned Palestinian children! Enough of the state of Israel, Killer! For the right to life of the Palestinian people!!”, Andrade posted on day 21. The war began on the 7th after Hamas carried out an unprecedented attack on Israeli territory. Thousands of Israelis and Palestinians have died in the conflict and around 200 Israelis have been kidnapped by Hamas.

At the day 7she stated on social media that “Bolsonaro’s desperation is clear, he cannot bear to see Brazil growing and recovering from the chaos he left behind. Without a speech, he indulges in the dissemination of fake news, the last one is trying to link Lula to Hamas. Forget it Bolsonaro, everyone knows who is in charge and finances the militia in Brazil.”

“In this war between Israel and Palestine there will be no winners, any victory that involves death, especially of civilians, is a dishonorable victory. Supporting the war on either side is a crime as horrendous as dropping a bomb on a school door… War is unforgivable, however we must be faithful to history, let’s be Palestinians for a day: land invaded, women raped, rights revoked, persecution, dependence on the usurper, Israel, to walk, eat, drink water is easy???” , said the Itaipu counselor in the October 8th.

She was appointed to the position at the state-owned company by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), with a salary of R$37,000 per month, plus benefits, in June this year, the column reported Panelfrom the Folha de S. Paulo. To the Panel, Gleide Andrade stated that the posts he made were in defense of life. “I defend lives, the lives of children and women and civilians. I don’t know what you feel when you see those children being bombed, but I am a mother, I am Christian and I am a tireless defender of the right to life… In my Christian purpose I will always I will defend peace, love and respect for human dignity. There is no justification for killing children on either side,” he said.

Last week, journalist Hélio Doyle was dismissed from the presidency of Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC) for sharing a message on social media that calls Israel’s supporters “idiots”. After Doyle’s dismissal, the Social Communication Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic, Paulo Pimenta, ordered employees to have “responsibility for any statement, any attitude” that may go against the government’s positions on the war between Israel and Hamas.

In a statement, the Israeli Confederation of Brazil (Conib) expressed “its deep repudiation and disgust for the demonstrations” by Gleide Andrade. The entity considered the statements anti-Semitic. “It was an anti-Semitic speech, which should have no place in Brazil. This type of speech cannot be tolerated, especially coming from a person in such a high official position”, says the statement.

“It is also surprising that in his speech there was no mention of the worst attack against Jews since the Holocaust, carried out by the terrorist group Hamas, which resulted in the deaths of 1,400 people, mass rapes of defenseless women, the death of dozens of children and babies, and the kidnapping of more than 200 people, of more than 20 nationalities”, stated Conib.