A Jewish organization in Brazil said it will launch a criminal investigation against the head of a major Brazilian political party after he promoted an anti-Semitic blood libel on social media.
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"Baal, Satanic deity, Canaanites and Jews sacrificed children to receive their sympathy. Today, history repeats itself," Brazilian Labor Party (PTB) national president Roberto Jefferson reportedly wrote on Friday in an Instagram post, which the social-media platform has since removed.
PTB is a supporter of right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro and holds 12 seats out of 513 in Brazil's lower parliamentary Chamber of Deputies.
On Saturday, the Jewish Confederation of Brazil (CONIB) called Jefferson's Instagram post "one of the vilest ways to attack Jews."
