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Yechiel Leiter (L), Israeli Ambassador to the US, attends a meeting between Israeli and Lebanese delegations hosted by the United States at the State Department in Washington, DC, on June 2, 2026. (Kent NISHIMURA / AFP)

Yechiel Leiter, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, on Sunday suggested The New York Times published a “blood libel” about IDF actions in Gaza “to prepare the next genocide” of Jews.

“There is no difference between what is being done to us today and what was done to our grandparents in the ghettos of Europe 800 years ago,” Leiter said.

Leiter made the comments at the closing ceremony of Chabad’s Kinus Hashluchim, the annual gathering of the Hasidic sect’s thousands of emissaries from around the world, in Edison, New Jersey.

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In his speech, Leiter said he had met with 21 New York Times editors, six of whom tuned in remotely, on November 10 last year and was berated with accusations “of genocide, of starving…