The South Korean president is doing quote-post diplomacy

April 17, 2026 Sarah Jeong

"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 kicked off 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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