{"id":1150175,"date":"2021-12-24T11:19:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T16:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1150175"},"modified":"2021-12-24T11:19:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T16:19:20","slug":"fact-check-did-benjamin-netanyahu-say-biafra-is-due-to-stand-as-a-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-benjamin-netanyahu-say-biafra-is-due-to-stand-as-a-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Benjamin Netanyahu Say, \u2018Biafra Is Due To Stand As A Nation\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-benjamin-netanyahu-say-biafra-is-due-to-stand-as-a-nation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1150175&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BiafranYouthsOfficial\/posts\/245546291012756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, \u201cBiafra is due to stand as a nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence Netanyahu made this statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu, who served as Israel\u2019s prime minister for more than a decade, was ousted from power in June 2021 and replaced with a new coalition government led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/israels-knesset-vote-new-government-end-netanyahus-record-reign-2021-06-13\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. Now, an image is being shared on Facebook that claims the ousted leader is voicing his support for Biafra, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Biafra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">secessionist state<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Biafra_map.PNG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">southern<\/a> part of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The image shows a picture of Netanyahu along with an alleged quote from him that reads, \u201cBiafra is due to stand as a nation.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/03\/11\/fact-check-nigeria-purchase-whatsapp-facebook\/https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/03\/11\/fact-check-nigeria-purchase-whatsapp-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did Nigeria Purchase WhatsApp From Facebook?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biafra existed as an independent country from 1967 until its reunification with Nigeria in 1970 following a bloody civil war with the Nigerian government, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Biafra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Encyclopedia Britannica<\/a>. Some activists in recent years have called for Biafra to be restored as a sovereign state, <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2020\/06\/11\/nigeria-biafra-kanu-reconciliation-independence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Foreign Policy<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>There is, however, no evidence Netanyahu made the statement attributed to him in the post. It does not appear in any of his official prime ministerial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/news\/more-news\/325369-buhari-congratulates-netanyahu-on-israeli-election-victory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">speeches or statements<\/a>. Likewise, none of Netanyahu\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=Biafra%20(from%3Anetanyahu)&amp;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social media<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/page\/268108602075\/search\/?q=Biafra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posts<\/a> include the supposed remark either, nor can it be found anywhere on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netanyahu.org.il\/%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%A6%D7%90%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A9?searchword=Biafra&amp;searchphrase=all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not to say the former prime minister has never discussed Biafra. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.il\/en\/Departments\/news\/speechyadvashem230417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">speech<\/a> he gave at a Holocaust memorial ceremony in 2017, he claimed the world has failed to respond to genocide since the Holocaust, including in Biafra.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd as to the world\u2019s apathy, has anything changed in this regard? Here too we must admit that the answer is primarily negative,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.il\/en\/Departments\/news\/speechyadvashem230417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> Netanyahu. \u201cIt is true that since World War II, no tragedy on the scale of the Holocaust has occurred, but there are many cases in which the world just stood by and did nothing to prevent the destruction of peoples or mass murder: in Biafra, in Cambodia, in Rwanda, in Sudan and indeed, also in Syria.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook claims former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, \u201cBiafra is due to stand as a nation.\u201dVerdict: False There is no evidence Netanyahu made this statement. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}