PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday apologized to the Jews for his widely condemned remarks last week that drew a parallel between his bloody anti-drug war and Adolf Hitler’s genocide of six million Jews during the Holocaust.

“I apologize profoundly and deeply to Jewish community,” Duterte said in a speech in Bacolod City where he joined the annual MassKara Festival.

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