The South Korean president is doing quote-post diplomacy
Published: (April 17, 2026 at 10:00 AM EDT)
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Source: The Verge
Source: The Verge
Summary
“This is no different from Comfort Women or the Holocaust,” wrote South Korean President Lee Jae‑myung on X last week, quoting a post with a video of Israeli Defense Forces soldiers throwing a body off a rooftop in Gaza.
The president’s post sparked an internet firestorm for a thousand different reasons, not least because the video in question was misleadingly labeled. The quoted post reads:
LIVE FOOTAGE: IDF soldiers tortured a Palestinian kid and threw him off a roof.
The video was actually from September 2024 and depicted Israeli soldiers kicking, dragging, and eventually hurling a limp body from a rooftop. The incident—involving …
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