NEW YORK (VINnews) — In a shocking display of insensitivity towards Israel and towards the Jewish people in general, the Belarus newspaper SB which is affiliated with the president of the republic depicted Syrian migrants on its borders against the backdrop of the Israeli national anthem. The migrants are attempting to enter Europe via Belarus and the country has stressed its opposition to the move but the clip showing migrants washing their clothes in the snow near the border has distinct antisemitic overtones.
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The Israeli foreign ministry and the embassy in Minsk issued a protest over the use of its anthem for propaganda purposes.
Lukashenka grossly abuses Israeli anthem by putting it in a video of migrants doing laundry at the EU border. It's an utterly disrespectful provocation by an illegitimate ruler for personal political gain contradicting national interests of Belarus.@IsraelinBelarus @IsraelMFA https://t.co/OptmYVzffh
— Valery Kavaleuski (@kavaleuski) November 28, 2021
The video clip shows migrants attempting to wash their clothes and dry them in the snowy conditions of the Belarus winter.
Thousands of migrants, mostly from Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, have amassed at Belarus’ western border with Poland in the hope of crossing into the European Union.
The opposition has accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of encouraging masses to cross into Poland and other member states in order to spark a humanitarian crisis within the EU.
Just pure ignorance. The editor found soul touching music that happened to be the Israeli anthem
Belarus’s is run by a Hitler
“In a shocking display of insensitivity towards Israel and towards the Jewish people in general”
Why would a Jew care in the slightest if some country uses the Zionist anthem?
The Zionist anthem (like everything about the Zionists) is not Jewish.
I could care less if they use that anthem at their funerals or in their bathrooms. In fact, that would be an upgrade from its current use of shmad.
The motive is quite clear. They’re mocking the films like Exodus that showed Jewish refugees trying to get to then Palestine. Hatikvah might have been played in that movie.
Here you have refugees as well trying to enter Europe.
On a number of occasions, diktator Lukashenko, fully propped up by Putin, was emboldened by Trump. This is the result.