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Rio de Janeiro – Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro clarified his remarks in which he insinuated on Thursday that the Nazi’s can be “forgiven” for the atrocities of the Holocaust, but not forgotten. On Saturday night, Israel’s Ambassador to Brazil Yossi Shelly posted a response to Facebook from Bolsonaro on the matter. “To the people of [...]

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U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed President Donald Trump, who shared a grim video featuring Rep. Ilhan Omar’s controversial 9/11 remarks alongside footage of the Twin Towers being attacked.
“Members of Congress have a duty to respond to the President’s explicit attack today,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Friday. “@IlhanMN’s life is in danger. For our colleagues to be silent is to be complicit in the outright, dangerous targeting of a member of Congress. We must speak out.”
She also shared an image of the words of “First they came … ,” the famous poem by German theologian Martin Niemöller that was inspired by the tragedies of the Holocaust.
The poem reads:
“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are down.
All three social media platforms, including Facebook Messenger, were not loading as of early Sunday morning.
Downdetector.com, a site that monitors site outages, shows Facebook has been down since 6:30AM ET in much of the world, with thousands of reported outages concentrated in northeastern U.S., Europe and the Philippines.

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro attempted to curb criticism over his comments that the Holocaust could be forgiven Saturday, saying that his words were being misinterpreted.
Bolsonaro on Thursday told a group of evangelical pastors in Rio de Janiero that “We can forgive, but we cannot forget. That quote is mine. Those that forget their past are sentenced not to have a future.”
In a clarification posted by Israel’s ambassador to Brazil Yossi Shelley late Saturday, Bolsonaro blamed “those who want to push me away from my Jewish friends,” for taking his speech out of context.

Organizers say Israelis decided not to attend business congress; decision comes after local lawmakers oppose visit, stress support for 'cause of the brotherly Palestinian people'