On Monday, Pope Francis is set to meet with Jewish community. After the controversy that erupted over Bergoglio's new book, in which the Pontiff calls for an investigation to determine whether a genocide is occurring in Gaza, the respective diplomacies organized the confrontation. A small delegation led by Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, Noemi Di Segni, president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, Jonathan Afri, head of the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France (Crif), Philip Rosenberg, Board of Deputies of British Jews, and Claudio Epelman, representative of the Jewish communities in Argentina, will meet with the Pope. Bergoglio's words on "genocide", described as "apparently cautious but potentially dangerous" by the Italian Rabbinical Assembly, drew criticism from the Israeli embassy in Rome and global Jewish leaders. "Words are important and you have to be very careful about how you use them, especially if you play a role of religious guide." The rabbis share with the Vatican position "the invocation for peace; however, the most detrimental approach is to unilaterally assign culpability to the aggressors and transform the victims into bloodthirsty avengers".
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