More than 300 Holocaust survivors and their descendants have condemned what
they described as Israel’s 'genocide of Palestinian people' in an advert in the
New York Times
Dozens of Holocaust survivors, together with hundreds of descendants of
Holocaust survivors and victims, have accused Israel of “genocide” for the
deaths of more than 2,000 Palestinians in Gaza since the conflict erupted in
July.
In an open letter released by the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
and published as an advert in The New York Times, the group calls for a full
economic, cultural and academic boycott of Israel over its “wholesale effort to
destroy Gaza”.
“Genocide begins with the silence of the world,” the statement reads, “We
must raise our collective voices and use our collective power to bring about an
end to all forms of racism, including the ongoing genocide of Palestinian
people.”
The statement also condemns the United States for its financial and
diplomatic support of Israel.
The signatories express alarm at “the extreme, racist dehumanization of
Palestinians in Israeli society, which has reached a fever pitch.”
This condemnation was designed as a response to a widely-published
advertisement from Nobel prize-winning author Elie Wiesel that condemned Hamas
for its “use of children as human shields”.
The statement reads: “We are disgusted and outraged by Elie Wiesel’s abuse
of our history […] to justify the unjustifiable.”
Of the 327 signatories, 40 survived the Holocaust and the other 287 are
descendants of Holocaust survivors or victims.
Recent today reports refer to the destruction of an high rise office
building in the southern town of Rafah, and the bombing of an apartment building
in Gaza City amid attempts from the Egyptian government to establish a durable
ceasefire.
More than 2,100 Palestinians, including 500 children have been killed in
the conflict, according to Palestinian health officials and UN figures. Israel
has lost 64 soldiers and four civilians.
(theothernews)
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