In a rare admission on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel is facing isolation on the world stage after nearly two years of its genocide in Gaza — but didn’t acknowledge his own government’s role in the situation.
At the “Fifty States — One Israel” economic conference hosted by Israel’s Finance Ministry, Netanyahu blamed foreign countries and Muslims for Israel’s isolation.
He blamed “unlimited immigration to Western European nations by Muslim minorities,” and repeated false, bigoted statements about Muslim populations replacing non-Muslims to become the “majority” in the region. Placing the blame of Israel’s isolation on the existence of Muslims is one of many blatantly Islamophobic statements made by Netanyahu and the state of Israel amid its genocide