Israel should partially boycott Pope's funeral due to his antisemitism, says former ambassador to Italy 

Dror Eydar, Israel's former ambassador to Italy, called on Israel today (Tuesday) to not send a high-ranking representative to the funeral of Pope Francis, on the grounds of his public stance on October 7, Hamas, and the war in Gaza.

In a post he published on Facebook explaining his stance, Eydar said that Israel should not send a high-ranking representative to the funeral of "Jorge Mario Bergoglio, known as Pope Francis," because "this pope has played a considerable role in fueling the wave of antisemitism worldwide since October 7. The day following the massacre, he gave a sermon at St. Peter's Square in the Vatican and failed to mention, even once, the atrocities committed by barbarians against the people of God."

The Pope's alleged sins of ommission and commission did not end there: "Throughout the war, he consistently criticized Israel with venomous language and even questioned whether Israel was committing "genocide" in Gaza. He repeatedly emphasized the children in Gaza, often neglecting the children in Israel. Historically, his level of antisemitism rivals only that of Pope Pius XII, who remained silent during the horrors of the Holocaust. We have national dignity, especially for our martyrs—the victims of October 7—whom the pope did not mourn, but rather blamed their people for their own deaths."