Visiting Israel, Congolese president faces billboards accusing him of antisemitism Felix Tshisekedi’s party is behind a bill widely seen as designed to eliminate a contender whose father was a Greek Holocaust refugee.
The ancestry of a Jewish refugee’s son is at the heart of a major political crisis in Congo Lawmakers loyal to the president are promoting a bill that would ban Moise Katumbi, a popular politician whose father was a Greek Jew, from ruling.
A Holocaust refugee’s son is one of the most powerful politicians in Congo Moise Katumbi, who calls himself the “Moses of Katanga,” wants to become a reform-minded president of the central African nation.