Diplomatic incident in Chile: the president refused to accept the charter of the Israeli ambassador Israel today

An unusual diplomatic incident in Chile: the country's president Gabriel Borich refused tonight (Thursday) to accept the charter of Israel's ambassador-designate in Santiago, Gil Artzeali.

According to recent reports, Arteali was called back to the presidential palace following the storm that developed in the local media and social networks in the country.

Sivan Gubrin, vice-chairman of the community of Chilean expatriates in Israel, told "Israel Hayom" that the incident surprised the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who had not received any prior message on the subject from the Chileans: "Borich is a known radical leftist and anti-Semitic.

Today the designated ambassador came to him, along with other new ambassadors from other countries, for a routine ceremony of submitting the treaty.

At the opening of the ceremony, the foreign minister of Chile approached the ambassador and told him that the president was not ready to receive him 'because of the children who died in Gaza'.

She did not specify which incident it was about." According to Gubrin, "it is a direct and blatant boycott of the State of Israel, and we, as a community of Chilean immigrants, strongly condemn it."

President Borich has a rich past of anti-Semitic statements and provocations.

In 2019, on Rosh Hashanah, members of the Jewish community handed out jars of honey to members of Congress in Santiago, and in response Borich tweeted on his Twitter account: "Everything is very nice, but instead of handing out honey - stop killing Palestinians and give them their land back."

Also, in the campaign he ran for the presidential elections in 2021, Borich said in a Zoom conversation with the leaders of the Jewish community in Chile that "Israel is a state of genocide", which deals with the murder of Palestinians.

Borich also promised the Palestinian community in Chile during the campaign that if elected, he would pass a law banning the State of Israel.

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