{"id":483699,"date":"2026-06-09T10:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/483699\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:23:14","slug":"heil-hitler-petro-links-israel-to-nazi-tactics-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/483699\/","title":{"rendered":"Heil Hitler? Petro links Israel to \u2018Nazi\u2019 tactics in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colombian President<\/a> Gustavo Petro accused Israel and the US of bringing political manipulation from \u201cfree Palestine\u201d to \u201cfree Latin America,\u201d drawing a sharp rebuke from Israel\u2019s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n

Petro made the claim while denouncing a billboard campaign against left-wing Colombian politician Iv\u00e1n Cepeda, which he described as criminal and compared to Nazi propaganda tactics.<\/p>\n

\u201cNi Rubio se atrevi\u00f3 a decir esto,\u201d Petro wrote in Spanish, meaning \u201cNot even Rubio dared to say this,\u201d in an apparent reference to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n

Petro said the billboard was \u201ca crime,\u201d while accusing Colombian electoral and legal authorities of failing to act. In the same post, he appeared to connect the campaign to Israel and the US, writing that those behind such tactics had acted in \u201cfree Palestine\u201d and were now planning to do the same in \u201cfree Latin America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Danon responded directly to Petro on X\/Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident of Colombia, @petrogustavo, whatever is going on in your personal life, there are lines that must never be crossed,\u201d Danon wrote.<\/p>\n

Danon<\/a>, who returned to the UN post in 2024 after previously serving as Israel\u2019s ambassador to the world body from 2015 to 2020, has often used social media to respond to international criticism of Israel.<\/p>\n

Petro has been one of Israel\u2019s fiercest critics in Latin America since the October 7 massacre and the start of the Israel-Hamas war.<\/p>\n

In September 2025, Petro\u2019s US visa was revoked<\/a> after he joined a pro-Palestinian demonstration in New York and called on US soldiers to disobey orders. Days later, he announced that Colombia would expel Israeli diplomats<\/a> after Israel intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla.<\/p>\n

The latest exchange added a new layer to the long-running diplomatic feud. Petro was responding to a Colombian political controversy, but his post quickly expanded the dispute into an attack involving Israel, the US, Nazi propaganda, Palestine, and Latin America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colombian President Gustavo Petro accused Israel and the US of bringing political manipulation from \u201cfree Palestine\u201d to \u201cfree…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19869,111,4646,11740,85,46,26458,78244,43],"class_list":["post-483699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-adolf-hitler","tag-antisemitism","tag-colombia","tag-danny-danon","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-nazis","tag-nazism","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}