Since May this year, pro-Armenian activists in Israel, using funds received from Armenian organizations in the United States, have distributed articles of a left-liberal orientation in Israeli and American Jewish media calling for abandoning support for Azerbaijan, Azernews reports, citing Azertag.
As their main argument, they put forward the thesis according to which the Jews who survived the Holocaust had now themselves become “accomplices in the genocide” of the Armenians of Karabakh. This is an attempt to put pressure on Israeli leaders to force them to abandon their military-strategic partnership with Azerbaijan.
However, the organizers of this dirty campaign will have no real power to influence Israel’s leaders. The response campaign by rabbis around the world received much wider resonance in Israel, which published articles in Israeli, American and French media condemning Armenian leaders over the demonization of Azerbaijan and the cynical exploitation of ‘Holocaust for propaganda purposes.
Famous rabbis from many countries of the world raised their voices against the demonization of Azerbaijan and the use of the Holocaust theme by Armenian propaganda, and the speeches of rabbis categorically disagreeing with such statements were announced in tens of thousands of synagogues across Israel. .
“I join my fellow rabbis and share their opinion…” Rabbi Zsolt Balla of Saxony (Germany) said on his personal Facebook page, who supported a group of influential rabbis from around the world against the demonization of Azerbaijan and the Use of Azerbaijan theme. the Holocaust by Armenian propaganda.
As the largest Russian-language Israeli publication “Vesti” notes, 18 prominent American and European rabbis also expressed support for Azerbaijan. “They responded to the call of Baku Rabbi Zamir Isayev, who published a video message highlighting documentary evidence that accusing Azerbaijan of “Armenian genocide in Karabakh” is pure fiction,” the publication said.
One of the leading media outlets for the Latin American Jewish diaspora, the Argentinian online publication Visavisc also broadcast Baku Rabbi Isayev’s video message calling on Jews around the world to denounce the demonization of Azerbaijan and the use of the Holocaust theme. by Armenian propaganda. The online publication called accusations against the Baku official over the “genocide” of Armenians in Karabakh a “smear campaign.”
The founder of the Latin American Rabbinical Conference, president of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Assistance Association (AMIA) and member of the European Conference of Rabbis Eliyahu Hamara, the chief rabbi of Panama David Perets and the rabbi of the Sephardic community of Chile’s Eliahu Tamim also expressed support against the demonization of Azerbaijan and the use of the Holocaust by Armenian propaganda.
On August 25 of this year, Baku Rabbi Zamir Isayev posted on his Facebook page a video message addressed to all Jews around the world in Hebrew and English, and during the first two days, major Jewish media not only published the text of the message but also supported it.
Stressing that rabbis around the world condemn Armenian propaganda, the most influential Israeli publication in English, “The Jerusalem Post”, writes: “Azerbaijani Jewish community… calls on Jewish leaders to condemn the use of the Holocaust by Iran’s allies. in reference to the current crisis in the Karabakh region. According to the Jerusalem Post, this call has already been supported by many influential rabbis around the world.
On August 27 and 28, similar articles were also published by a number of other Jewish religious publications in Israel, France and other countries, such as Israel National News, INN, Actualic, the Shaharit newspaper and Kountrass .
“The international demonization campaign against Azerbaijan carried out by Armenia under the auspices of Iran has aroused the indignation of influential rabbis around the world,” mentions the Israeli religious publication Kikar.
The head of the Jewish religious community of Odessa (Ukraine), Shlomo Baksht, published on his Facebook page a link to a publication in the “Jerusalem Post” calling on Jews around the world to denounce the demonization of Azerbaijan and the use of the Holocaust theme by Armenian propaganda. Any “comparison” is an insult to the sacred memory of the victims of the Holocaust,” Baksht wrote, in response to the statements of the Armenian “personalities” cited in Isayev’s speech. “In an interview with AFP, Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan accused the Azerbaijani authorities of creating a “real ghetto” in the enclave, which would be a “preparation for a new Holocaust”. The representative of the separatists Vardanyan even declared that “the suffering of Armenians is greater than the suffering of the victims of the Holocaust…”.
“The accusations of the head of the Armenian government, Pashinyan, against the Azerbaijani authorities of creating a “real ghetto” for the Armenian inhabitants of Karabakh in “preparation for the next Holocaust”, as Pashinyan put it, provoked a wave of virulent condemnations among rabbis around the world. ..”, mentioned the Israeli religious publication Matzav Ha-Ruah.
Last weekend, Friday and Saturday, this edition of the newspaper was distributed free of charge throughout Israel to 80,000 synagogues nationwide.
—
Follow us on twitter @AzerNewsAz
