Brazil’s Holocaust Remarks Turn G-20 Into High-Stakes Affair
- Foreign ministers gather in Rio amid ongoing Israel-Hamas war
- Germany’s Baerbock slams host country over Holocaust comment
The Rio meeting has become a significant test of the G-20’s ability to serve as an effective global forum.
Photographer: Pablo Porciuncula/AFP/Getty ImagesThe international outcry over Brazil comparing Israel’s actions in Gaza to the genocide during World War II has turned a typically sleepy gathering of Group of 20 foreign ministers into a high-stakes affair.
The world’s top diplomats are meeting in person in Rio de Janeiro for the first time since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel sparked a full-blown conflict, and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock spoke up unequivocally.