Colombia breaks all relations with Israel

[LAKISYLVANIA]

https://twitter.com/huzaifakhan1997/status/1785732858650505356

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/colombia-president-petro-says-will-break-diplomatic-relations-with-israel-2024-05-01/

-> source: reuters (since twitter needs to be doublechecked nowadays)

The world is waking up. Israel is becoming a pariah state.

[Edu]

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

Massively disliked far-left leader tries to salvage his tenure by picking a fight with the world's favorite whipping boy. News at 11. As long as Petro isn't stupid enough to try to target Jews in his country, he should get what he wants out of this.

[Silent Hunter]

Israel spent much of the last quarter of the 20th century with far worse diplomatic relations. They'll yawn and carry on.

[CumbrianLefty]

Yeah, this is pretty small beer all round.

[SnowLabrador]

Good.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

Yeah, this is pretty small beer all round.

It's symbolic, yes, but still, it counts.

[wnwnwn]

Antisemitism and anti-zionist is low key popular here in LATAM, including our own share of antisemitic right wing trolls online.

I think what Petro wants here is to champion anti-zionism: this means criticizing the existence of Israel. This is a popular cause in a good part the latino left.

Now, if the colombian right wing press show the country the exceses of the protests in the USA and the horros what hostages suffer, combined with Petro's own failings, this may help to hurt him in the mid term.

[Red Velvet]

I don’t think normal people in Latin America care that much either way tbh. I am talking about both Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestine camps btw.

Sure, they exist but they’re FAR from being as passionate as their Western counterparts. The Israel supporters are mostly evangelicals who don’t even really understand what’s happening but use Israel symbolisms for the sake of aesthetics as someone told them it’s a far-right religious country that is aligned with their beliefs. Palestine supporters otoh will support stuff that may sound harsh to Western ears, like cutting relationships with Israel, but they aren’t really that passionate about it like you see people in the West demonstrate with solidarity messages or active protesting.

And frankly, I like it that way much more as it’s not something that is happening near us. Much less performative and less emotional reaction than Westerners tend to have, each leader just has their own position/ideology and does something according it and that’s it, people just accept it whatever the hell it is, from relocating Israel embassy to Jerusalem to cutting diplomatic relationships with Israel altogether.

Give me that every day over US and even Europe being clearly Pro-Israel while trying to simultaneously convey a false solidarity for Palestinians in order to appease part of their progressive electorate while failing to do so because it’s obvious and angering those progressive activists instead.

[Edu]

I don’t think normal people in Latin America care that much either way tbh. I am talking about both Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestine camps btw.

I admit that the way this particular old conflict has melted the brains of people in the US and Europe is somewhat hilarious. I mean, some guy on this very forum said that he and his girlfriend were basically splitting up thanks to this war lol.

[wnwnwn]

Obviously people in LATAM don't care much about what's happening there, but the opposition to Israel is social media is evident and not by muslims nor arabs... People won't protest for it, but it can still affect the popularity of the supporters.