Orabi abaholayo abangamaJuda nabaholi besonto bacela abavakashi abangamaJuda ukuba bangayi eMidlalweni Yama-Olympic.
Bangaphezu kuka-175 abaholi bamaJuda, okuhlanganisa nezinhloko zeReform and Conservative, basayine isicelo esikhishwe ngoLwesithathu. Kwaqalwa orabi ababili besonto lobu-Orthodox endaweni yaseNew York, u-Irving “Yitz” Greenberg noHaskell Lookstein, ngemva kokuzwa ukuthi iBeijing yayimise ikhishi le-kosher elizohlalisa abavakashi abangamaJuda.
“Sikhathazeke kakhulu ngokweseka kweChina uhulumeni obulala abantu baseSudan; ukuphatha kabi kwawo abantu baseTibet; ukwenqabela kwayo amalungelo ayisisekelo kwizakhamizi zayo; nokuhlinzeka kwayo ngemicibisholo e-Iran naseSyria, kanye nobungane beHamas,” kusho isitatimende. “Njengoba sesibekezelele isipiliyoni esibuhlungu sokulahlwa yilabo abebecabanga ukuthi singabasekeli bethu ngesikhathi sokuQothulwa Kwesizwe, sizizwa sinesibopho esikhulu sokukhuluma ngokumelene nokungabi nabulungisa noshushiso namuhla.”
Lesi sitatimende sihlelwe ngaphambi kwesikhumbuzo sika-Yom Hashoah ngoLwesine. Omunye wabasayinile, uRabbi Eric Yoffie, umongameli we-Union of Reform Judaism, uthe leli khwelo libhekiswe kubavakashi kuphela futhi abahleli bebengalindele ukuthi abasubathi bamaJuda noma izikhulu zakwa-Israel zizoyiduba le midlalo.
"Lesi yisicelo sokuziphatha kubantu abangamaJuda emhlabeni jikelele," u-Yoffie utshele i-JTA.
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LOKHO ONGAKUTHATHE KULESI SIHLOKO:
- One of the signatories, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, the president of the Union of Reform Judaism, said the call targeted tourists only and that the organizers did not expect Jewish athletes or Israeli officials to boycott the games.
- “Having endured the bitter experience of abandonment by our presumed allies during the Holocaust, we feel a particular obligation to speak out against injustice and persecution today.
- More than 175 Jewish leaders, including the heads of the Reform and Conservative movements, signed the appeal released Wednesday.
