Israel has declared Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva persona non grata after he compared the country’s military operation in the Gaza Strip to the mass murder of European Jews ordered by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Israeli Foreign Minister Israeli Katz said he had summoned the Brazilian ambassador on Monday to the Yad Vashem memorial. The Holocaust memorial near Jerusalem was “the place which testifies more than anything, to what the Nazis and Hitler did to the Jews including my own family,” Katz wrote on X, formerly Twitter. Brazil’s Lula on Sunday compared the ongoing Israeli mi…