Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador insulted his country’s Jewish community on Thursday with a speech.“hitler” one of his many critics, himself a Jew. “Yesterday I said that Mr. Alazraki is a Hitlerite.” said the president, targeting editorial writer Carlos Alazrak. “Mr. Alazraki is a follower of Hitler’s thought.”he repeated during his more than two-hour daily intervention.
“Who was Hitler’s main propagandist?” Goebbels”continued the president of the nationalist left, follower of great historical references. “Goebbels said that a lie repeated often can become the truth. Well, that is the essence of the strategy of publicists or propagandists like Alazraki.” “I have many friends in the Jewish community”he added. “But this does not mean that the whole community is allowed to harm the transformation movement, only with its ideals, thoughts, conservatism and, I repeat, Hitlerism.”
Elected in 2018, the nationalist leftist president aspires to lead the 2018 elections “fourth transformation” After Mexican independence in 1821, the liberal reforms of 1857, and the revolution of 1910-17. One of his National Renaissance Movement (Morena) figures, Mexico City Mayor Claudia Scheinbaum, his likely runner-up in the next election in 2024, is the granddaughter of Eastern European Jews. “I am not Hitler. I am Jewish, like Scheinbaum.’ Carlos Alazraki responded in an open letter to the president in l’Universal newspaper. “You defamed me by calling me Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Stalin.”
“Yes, President, I am neoliberal, conservative and “fifi” (bourgeois) (…). Do you know who I owe all this to? To my beloved Mexico, who gave me every opportunity to flourish like most Mexicans.” wrote the columnist. The Central Committee of the Jewish Community of Mexico, in turn, refused “Use of the term Hitler”judging “deplorable and unacceptable” any comparison with “the bloodiest regime in history”. According to official data, the Jewish community in Mexico is 59,000 practitioners.
Source: Le Figaro
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