Slovenian Prime Minister Jansa caused a scandal in the parliament by claiming there was no genocide in Gaza

Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa answered the questions of the opposition in the parliament yesterday, who accused the Slovenian government of being too supportive of Israel regarding Gaza.

In his speech, Prime Minister Jansa said that "a genocide decision was not made in Gaza according to international law" and that the term "genocide" was used as a political discourse, and asked the opposition why only the deaths in Gaza were mentioned and the deaths of Christians were ignored.

'THERE IS A PILE OF BODIES'

During his speech in which he tried to prove that there was no genocide in Gaza, Jansa held a photo taken in Gaza and said, "This is Sudan, there are a lot of corpses. Much more than what you see in Gaza. Here are the Christians who were killed."

On the other hand, it was revealed that the photo that Jansa showed to the MPs with the phrase "killed Christians" was shared by David McIntosh, a British marine who worked in Gaza. McIntosh, who took part in humanitarian aid activities in Gaza between August and October 2025, wrote that the photo was taken at aid points in Gaza and showed Palestinians who refused to surrender to fear and did not allow their families to starve. McIntosh accused the Israeli army of shooting at civilians and themselves around the aid points.

WHAT CAUSED REACTION?

Reacting to what happened, Robert Golob, leader of the main opposition party Freedom Movement, said, "We are at the end of our words. How much lower can we fall? Our parliament has turned into the scene of such inhumane mockery." Golob called on Jansa to apologize.

'ISRAEL'S SUBCONTRACTOR'

The Left Party described the events as a "fiasco" in the press release and accused the Prime Minister of being "Israel's subcontractor".

'SHAME' AND 'HUMILIATION'

Member of the European Parliament Matjaz Nemec published an open letter to Jansa and criticized Jansa's statements that there was no genocide in Gaza according to international law. Nemec described the government's friendship with Israel as "shame" and "humiliation" on Slovenia's neck.

'IF HE KNEW, HE WOULD PROBABLY HAVE DENIED IT'

March 8 Institute Director Nika Kovac said, "A strange thing happened yesterday. In his speech, Janez Jansa showed a photo of starving people in Gaza. The photo is heartbreaking. It shows people who cannot receive humanitarian aid in Gaza and are waiting for help. These people are starving because of the decisions taken by the genociders. Jansa claimed that this was a photo taken in Sudan. While showing the photo, he actually admitted that these were morally wrong and unacceptable. He did this because he did not know that the photo was taken in Gaza. "If he had known, he probably would have denied it," he said.

'THIS MEANS THAT OUR GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS WAR CRIMES'

Sharing images of Jansa in parliament, Kovac said, "This means that our state has been taken over. It means that our government is blindly cooperating with the Netanyahu government. It means that our government supports war crimes."