MEXICO CITY: In kosher stores, synagogues and intellectual circles, Mexico’s small Jewish community condemned the Israeli prime minister’s support for US President Donald Trump’s border wall as disappointing and shameful.
The Mexican government demanded an apology from Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, but the Israeli leader insisted that he was not referring to Mexico in his weekend message on Twitter.
“Netanyahu must apologise to the Mexican people for his disgusting statement,” the prominent historian Enrique Krauze wrote on Twitter.
Calling Netanyahu a “lackey of Trump,” Krauze said he “condemned, deplored and rejected” the prime minister’s tweet.
More than 67,000 people practiced Judaism in Mexico during …read more
Source: The News International
