More
EN
Newsletter
More
Newsletter
EN
Support JNS
News   U.S. News

Bolsonaro confirms eventual embassy move to Jerusalem

The primary country objecting to it is Iran, and not Arab nations.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing anti-establishment figure who has promised to upend the status quo in the country, including improving ties with Israel. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing anti-establishment figure who has promised to upend the status quo in the country, including improving ties with Israel. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
(Jan. 4, 2019 / JNS)

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has confirmed on Thursday that he will move his country’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

The primary country objecting to it is Iran, he said, and not Arab nations.

“The decision is taken; it’s only a matter of when it will be implemented,” he said in an interview to SBT television.

While campaigning, Bolsonaro pledged to go ahead with the relocation, in addition to shuttering the Palestinian embassy in Brasilia.

Latin America U.S. Politics U.S. Midterm Elections
EXPLORE JNS
July 4 military flyover fighter jets
U.S. News
‘We’re going to take out Pickaxe Mountain,’ Trump says, of Iranian nuclear site
The U.S. president ordered a third consecutive night of strikes against the Islamic Republic.
July 13, 2026
Inna Vernikov
Feature
‘Doesn’t impact my life’ if someone sits in their basement hating me, Jewish NY City Council member says
“I knew I was gonna be fighting antisemitism,” Inna Vernikov, a Republican, told JNS. “I didn’t see politicians doing that on a big scale. I just saw a lot of pandering on both sides.”
July 13, 2026
Rikki Zagelbaum
Gavel, Legal, Law, Court
U.S. News
San Jose State graduate student charged in antisemitic bomb-hoax threats
Prosecutors said that fingerprint, surveillance footage and key-card records link the suspect to more than 20 threatening campus messages.
July 13, 2026
International Criminal Court
U.S. News
Trump admin launches campaign to dismantle ICC ‘brick by brick, if necessary’
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Washington will press allies to withdraw from the Hague-based court while weighing sanctions, visa bans and other measures against its officials.
July 13, 2026
Mike Wagenheim
Red Pen
U.S. News
PEN America president resigns in protest after organization shares report on anti-Jewish discrimination
Dinaw Mengestu wrote on Instagram that he left because of an “ongoing failure to defend free expression fairly and equitably.”
July 13, 2026
Lindsey Graham Darline Graham Nordone
U.S. News
South Carolina likely to elect pro-Israel senator with less foreign policy expertise, focus than Graham, experts say
“Whoever ends up getting this seat, they’re not going to have as much foreign policy experience as Lindsey Graham,” Christopher Cooper, a political science professor at Western Carolina University, told JNS.
July 13, 2026
Aaron Bandler, Jessica Russak-Hoffman
Trump, Netanyahu
JNS TV / JLMinute
Is Israel preparing for the next phase of the Iran conflict?
July 13, 2026 05:30 AM
Alex Traiman, Josh Hasten
THE COLUMN
Benjamin Kerstein. Credit: Courtesy.
Column
The American Jewish disillusionment
Benjamin Kerstein
Ben Cohen. Credit: Courtesy.
Global Focus
Appropriation: What the Irish do best
Ben Cohen