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EDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2008
Tibet: Jewish leaders call for boycott of Olympic Games
A wide-ranging group of US Jewish leaders intend to call upon Jews
worldwide to boycott the Summer Olympics in Beijing, citing China's
troubling record on human rights and Tibet.
The statement also criticies China's close relation****ps with Iran,
Syria and the militant group Hamas.
Organisers said that so far, 175 rabbis, seminary officials and other
prominent Jews have signed the declaration which comes shortly before
Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday.
"We are deeply troubled by China's sup****t for the genocidal
government of Sudan; its mistreatment of the people of Tibet; its
denial of basic rights to its own citizens; and its provision of
missiles to Iran and Syria and friend****p for Hamas," the statement
reads.
"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."
Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, past chairman of the United States Holocaust
Memorial Council, said signers are not alleging that the Chinese
government is the equivalent of the Nazi regime, but that China, like
Germany in 1936, is trying to use the Olympics as a public relations
tool to deflect attention from its record.
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