JERUSALEM: Israeli Overseas Minister Gideon Saar accused unnamed European officers on Thursday (Might 22) of “poisonous antisemitic incitement” he blamed for a hostile local weather by which the deadly capturing of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington passed off.
Israel has confronted a blizzard of criticism from Europe of late because it has intensified its navy marketing campaign in Gaza, the place humanitarian teams have warned that an 11-week Israeli blockade on support provides has left the Palestinian enclave getting ready to famine.
Saar didn’t title any international locations or officers however stated the local weather of hostility in direction of Israel was behind the capturing of the embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim outdoors a Jewish museum in Washington on Wednesday.
Saar, at a information convention in Jerusalem, stated the assault was a direct end result of “poisonous antisemitic incitement towards Israel and Jews around the globe” since Hamas militants’ cross-border assault on Israel in October 2023.
“There’s a direct line connecting antisemitic and anti-Israel incitement to this homicide,” he stated. “This incitement can be completed by leaders and officers of many international locations and organisations, particularly from Europe.”
Saar declined to establish which chief or officers he had in thoughts. However his remarks got here after more and more powerful phrases from Western allies of Israel together with France and Britain, which joined Canada this week in warning of doable “concrete motion” towards Israel over its warfare in Gaza.
US officers stated a suspect who chanted pro-Palestinian slogans was in custody. President Donald Trump and a variety of European and different overseas leaders condemned the assault.
