The Shiv Sena (UBT) leader re-shared a post on his X feed on the appalling condition in a Gaza hospital, adding an ‘anti-Semitic’ comment to it.
Team Clarion
NEW DELHI — The Israeli Embassy has lodged a strong protest against Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut’s “anti-Semitic” post on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter).
On Friday, the embassy sent a strong-worded letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), expressing disappointment over Raut’s remark that justified the Holocaust against the Jewish population.
Media reports on Saturday quoted diplomatic sources as saying that the embassy wanted the Rajya Sabha member to be told how his post had hurt a country that has always stood by India.
On 14 November, Sanjay Raut reshared a report regarding a very disturbing and painful situation at the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, along with some Hindi commentary of his own. The now-deleted tweet reads: “Ab samajh aa raha hai Hitler Jews se itni nafrat kyun karta tha (Now I understand why Hitler hated the Jewish people so much).”
Though Raut deleted the tweet later, it had racked up over 293,000 views by the time Israeli authorities took a screenshot. They attached the post with their mail to the Indian government, sources told.
The report reshared by Raut showed premature babies screaming at the Al-Shifa Hospital following Israel’s offensive. “Premature babies are screaming in Al-Shifa Hospital. The power to the incubator in which they were kept has been cut off by Israel. Armed forces have surrounded the hospital from all sides. No food items, milk, or water are allowed inside the hospital,” the report stated.
Raut has been very vocal about the Israel-Hamas conflict ever since it began in early October.
Last month, he said India was supporting Israel because it supplied the Pegasus “snooping” software to the Narendra Modi government.
The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators are accused of killing around 60 lakh Jews across German-occupied Europe by locking them in a gas chamber.
