Israel has become associated with “genocide” among American students, former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said, Anadolu reports. “For the first time since the establishment of the State of Israel, among the American public, Israel has become a negative brand,” Bennett said in a recent interview. “If you ask an American student, ‘Israel — what comes to mind?’ They say genocide. That’s the situation,” Bennett said. Drawing a comparison with how countries are commonly associated with symbols, he added: “You say Italy — ‘pasta, spaghetti.’ You say Israel — ‘baby killers.’” Bennett rejected that perception, saying: “Obviously, that isn’t true and it isn’t fair, but that is the situation.” He also blamed part of the shift in public opinion on what […]
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