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Monday, April 13, 2026

Lawrence Peck: Leftist Korean President Lee Jae-myung's Remarks Not Only Threaten to Tear Up Relations With Israel, But Also to Rip Up Relations With Israel's U.S. Allies - 펜앤마이크

Just days before this year's solemn Holocaust Remembrance Day, Korea's leftist President Lee Jae-myung apparently calculated that it was a good time to engage in his usual practice of glaring double standards and hypocrisy by disrespecting the memory of victims of the Holocaust and to insult Israel, Jews, and others around the world. Lee did this by spreading what is known in Western nations as a "blood libel" against Israel, by recklessly re-posting the false claims of an extremist account on the social media platform "X." This incident, so embarrassing to the ROK, began when the impulsive Lee apparently was sent by someone, or else had discovered on his own, an X account of a Palestinian extremist who falsely claimed that a 2024 video depicted Israeli soldiers "torturing" and throwing Palestinian "children" off the roof of a building. Lee was apparently deceived by the video, implying that it took place during the current conflict with Iran, and he failed to exercise any due diligence or basic fact checking either on the specific claim which was made or on the basic nature of the X account, before he re-posted the content. As it was soon revealed, the original post on X by the Palestinian extremist was deeply dishonest in its false description of the video.

As it turns out, the truth of the matter is that the video shows Israeli soldiers throwing off a roof the dead bodies of Palestinian terrorist fighters who had been killed in combat. The bodies thrown off the roof...



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