Anti-Semitic Remarks Nearly Derailed US Ambassador to Brazil’s Nomination. Now She’s Silent as Brazil Compares Israel to Nazis.
Elizabeth Bagley bemoaned ‘influence of the Jewish lobby’ Elizabeth Bagley (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images), Lula da Silva (Carsten Koall/Getty Images) The U.S. ambassador to Brazil—who once bemoaned “the influence of the Jewish lobby” in politics—will not publicly comment on a series of anti-Semitic remarks by far-left Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, raising concerns on