Netanyahu slams Carney over response to heckler’s Gaza ‘genocide’ claim [Video]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney after he seemed to validate an anti-Israel protester’s assertion that there is a “genocide” in Gaza.

“Canada has always sided with civilization. So should Mr. Carney. But instead of supporting Israel, a democracy that is fighting a just war with just means against the barbarians of Hamas, he attacks the one and only Jewish state. Mr. Carney, backtrack your irresponsible statement,” Netanyahu wrote in a post on X.

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Carney was at a rally in Calgary, Alberta, when someone in the crowd shouted, “Mr. Carney, there’s a genocide happening in Palestine!”

In response, Carney thanked the protester and said, “I’m aware, which is why we have an arms embargo” as the crowd began chanting his name.

The response sparked an uproar among Canadian Jewish organizations, such as the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), which tweeted an objection …