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Holocaust survivors condemn Israel's Gaza 'genocide' Holocaust families criticise Israel over Gaza
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More than 300 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and descendants of survivors have issued a public statement condemning Israel's "genocide" of the Palestinian people in Gaza. More than 300 Holocaust survivors and their descendants have issued a statement condemning what they call Israel's "genocide" in Gaza.
The statement was released by the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network and was placed as an advertisement in the New York Times. The International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network placed the statement as an advertisement in the New York Times.
It was in response to an advertisement by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel which compared the Palestinian militant movement Hamas to the Nazis.
More than 2,000 people have been killed in Gaza in the ongoing conflict.
Most of them were civilians. On the Israeli side, 68 people - mainly soldiers - have been killed.
The Gaza conflict has drawn strong reaction in the US, with pro- and anti-Israel demonstrations taking place.
The advertisement in the New York Times is signed by 40 Holocaust survivors and 287 descendants and other relatives.
It calls for the blockade of Gaza to be lifted and Israel to be boycotted.It calls for the blockade of Gaza to be lifted and Israel to be boycotted.
The signatories expressed alarm at the "colonization of historic Palestine".
It condemns the "racist dehumanisation of Palestinians in Israeli society, which has reached fever pitch".
"As Jewish survivors and descendants of survivors and victims of the Nazi genocide we unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and the ongoing occupation and colonization of historic Palestine," the statement says."As Jewish survivors and descendants of survivors and victims of the Nazi genocide we unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and the ongoing occupation and colonization of historic Palestine," the statement says.
"We further condemn the United States for providing Israel with the funding to carry out the attack, and Western states more generally for using their diplomatic muscle to protect Israel from condemnation. The IJAN, founded in 2008, is a small left-wing organisation which is highly critical of Israel.
"Genocide begins with the silence of the world." Israel tightened its blockade of Gaza in 2007 after Hamas, which calls for Israel's eradication, took control of the territory, having won elections the year before and ousted political rivals Fatah.
The statement goes on to call for an economic, cultural and academic boycott of Israel. Egypt, which also regards Hamas as a threat, maintains a blockade of Gaza's southern border.
Organisers say that the statement was drafted as a response to an advertisement written by Nobel prize-winning author Elie Wiesel and published in many newspapers which accused Hamas of "child sacrifice" and behaving like Nazis.
More than 2,090 Palestinians - mostly civilians - and 67 Israelis have been killed in recent weeks.