New Delhi: The Israeli Embassy has written a strongly-worded letter to the External Affairs Ministry and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, complaining about Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut’s “anti-Semitic” post on the social media platform X [previously Twitter], ThePrint has learnt.
Diplomatic sources said the embassy wanted the MP to be told how his post had hurt a country which has always stood by India.
On 14 November, Raut had reshared an article on the “dire condition” in a Gaza hospital with his own comments in Hindi, which roughly translates to “he now understands why Hitler hated Jews 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 ThePrint.
In the letter, the Israelis expressed shock that an Indian parliamentarian would indulge in the kind of “anti-Semitism” never seen in India, a source said.
ThePrint reached out to the Israeli Embassy but it declined to comment, saying this was part of a diplomatic conversation between the two countries.
Raut has been very vocal about the Israel-Hamas conflict ever since it began early October.
Last month, he equated the ruling BJP with the militant group and later said India was supporting Israel because it supplied the Pegasus “snooping” software to the Narendra Modi government.
(Edited by Tikli Basu)
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