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Former US ambassador says Smotrich was ‘not invited’ to NYC parade

Published June 2, 2026 Updated June 2, 2026 09:49am
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Dan Shapiro, a former US ambassador to Israel, has said that Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich “was not invited to the Israel Day Parade in New York. He crashed it.”

“He should have stayed away. His extremist views do harm to the US-Israel relationship,” Shapiro, who represented the US in Israel from 2011 to 2017, added in a post on X.

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