JTA — South Korean President Lee Jae Myung drew condemnation over the weekend from Israel’s Foreign Ministry after comparing Israeli military actions to the Holocaust in a social media post.

Lee’s X post on Thursday reposted a video showing an Israeli soldier pushing the body of a Palestinian man off of a building in the West Bank in 2024. The leader wrote that he needed to “look into whether this is true, and, if so, what measures were taken.”

He then called the issue of “forced sexual servitude of ‘comfort women,’” which South Korea resents the Japanese for practicing during World War II, “no different from the Holocaust or wartime atrocities.”

The video was posted by an account whose bio reads “Unapologetic Muslim Palestinian.” Lee later clarified that he had learned that the incident had taken place in September 2024 and that Israel had “conducted an investigation into the matter and taken appropriate measures.”

But the damage was done. The Israeli Foreign Ministry condemned Lee’s post on X on Friday, writing, “The remarks by the President of Korea, Lee Jae Myung, including the trivialization of the massacre of Jews on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel, are unacceptable and warrant strong condemnation.”

Charging that the account amplified by Lee was “notorious for spreading anti-Israeli disinformation,” the ministry questioned why he had not spoken up about attacks on Israelis.

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