Chile’s Lawyers for Palestine call for investigation into country’s ambassador to Israel

Lawyers for Palestine in Chile have issued a press statement confirming that they have filed a formal petition with the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic. The petition is requesting an investigation into Chile’s Ambassador to Israel, Gabriel Zaliasnik, over an interview broadcast on 26th August by the US program “Defending Israel” on the Jewish Broadcasting Service (JBS).  Introduced as Chile’s Ambassador, Zaliasnik accused Chile’s Palestinian community of manipulating its numbers: “They play with the number because that’s politics.” In the same interview he conceded that, as to the figure, “we can speculate only.” He was asked only about the community’s size, yet he went on to refer to the “radicalizing” of “some small sectors” of it, without […]