Umuntu oqokelwe esikhundleni seDemocratic Alliance e-US kanye nonethemba lokuba ngumongameli uBernie Sanders uthe ukugxeka inqubomgomo kahulumeni wakwa-Israel akuwona amaSemite.
Ekhuluma emhlanganweni wehholo ledolobha esifundazweni saseNew Hampshire, ogwini olusempumalanga ye-US, uSanders utshele isixuku sokuthi "njengomuntu oziqhenyayo ongumJuda", ukugxeka uhulumeni ophiko lwesokudla oholwa nguNdunankulu wase-Israel uBenjamin Netanyahu "akumele kube ngokumelene namaSemite".
Ukuphawula kukaSander kufike ephendula umbuzo ovela kwelinye ilungu lezethameli elizichaze ngokuthi phambilini โlizizwa liphoxekile ngempela ngosopolitiki abamele kuphela izwi lamaJuda elingagxeki nhlobo kwa-Israyeliโ futhi โnjengesizukulwane esikuqondayo lokho kuphikisa Ukuhlala [kwa-Israyeli] [kwezindawo zasePalestine] kuyisibopho sokuziphatha kwamaJudaโ.
Ebuza uSanders ngokuqondile ukuthi "kungani kubalulekile kuwe ukuthi ulwe ukuze uqede umsebenzi," uSenator waseVermont uphendule:
Engake ngakusho mayelana nalolu daba ukuthi inqubomgomo yezangaphandle yase-US kufanele inikezwe ngokulinganayo. Siyawahlonipha ama-Israyeli. I-Israel inalo lonke ilungelo emhlabeni wonke lokuphila ngokuthula nokuvikeleka, kodwa kunjalo nabantu basePalestine.
USanders uphinde wasebenzisa leli thuba ukwehlisela phansi okwedlule isithembiso ukusebenzisa usizo lwe-US ku-Israel ukucindezela uhulumeni wakwa-Israel ukuthi aqede iminyaka engu-52 ubudala yokuvinjezelwa. "Izwe laseMelika linikeza u-Israyeli imali eningi," kuvuma uSanders, wengeza ngokuthi "Ngicabanga ukuthi singasebenzisa leyo mali ukuqeda ukucwasa esisanda kukubona kwa-Israel".
Ngo-Okthoba 2018, iphakethe losizo lwezempi elikhulu kunawo wonke e-US eya kwa-Israyeli - libiza amaRandi ayizigidi eziyizinkulungwane ezingama-38 esikhathini esiyiminyaka eyishumi - wangena ngamandla. I-Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) yaqala isayinwe phakathi kwe-US kanye ne-Israel ngo-2016 futhi yabeka uxhaso ku-$ 3.3 billion ku-Foreign Military Financing, kanye ne-$ 500 million eyengeziwe "yezinhlelo zokubambisana zokuvikela imicibisholo" minyaka yonke eminyakeni eyishumi ezayo.
Ngaphansi kukaMongameli waseMelika uDonald Trump leli zinga eliphezulu lokusebenzisa imali livikelwe kanzima, naphezu kokwehliswa kwesabelomali kweminye imikhakha efana nokuvikelwa kwemvelo, i-USAID, izindlu kanye nempilo; isiphakamiso sesabelomali sika-2020 Ithunyelwe yi-White House to Congress ngoNdasa ihlanganise nosizo oluphelele lwama-dollar ayizigidi eziyizinkulungwane ezingama-3.3 oluvezwe ku-MOU yowezi-2016.
Ukuphawula kukaSanders mayelana ne-anti-Semitism cishe kuzobonakala njengokungenelela okufika ngesikhathi engxoxweni eshubile - e-US kanye nasemhlabeni jikelele - mayelana nokuthi yini ehlanganisa ukulwa namaJuda.
Ngesonto eledlule uMnyango Wezwe LaseMelika ibuyekeziwe incazelo yayo ye-anti-Semitism ukuthi ihlanganise "ukudweba ukuqhathanisa kwenqubomgomo ye-Israel yangaleso sikhathi neyamaNazi", enezela enanini lezibonelo ezifakwe encazelweni ehlobene ngokuqondile ne-Israel.
Eziningi zalezi zibonelo zifana nalezo ezisencazelo ye-International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), eye yamukelwa kabanzi yizinhlangano namaqembu ezombusazwe.
Incazelo ye-IHRA selokhu yaba njalo kuthathwa yayingafaneleki injongo ngezizathu zokuthi โyayingakaze ihloselwe ukubamba yonke incazelo ye-anti-Semitismโ. Omunye wabadali bencazelo, ummeli wase-US u-Kenneth S Stern, ugxeke indlela incazelo ye-IHRA esetshenziswa ngayo manje ukukhawulela isikole inkululeko kanye nokujezisa inkulumo ekhululekile, ikakhulukazi uma kuziwa ezenzakalweni zePalestine nanoma yikuphi ukugxekwa kuka-Israyeli.
UNgqongqoshe Wezindaba Zamasu kanye Nokuphepha Komphakathi kwa-Israel, uGilad Erdan, usephumele obala udunyiswe indima yencazelo ye-IHRA ekulebeni abalandeli be-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) ukunyakaza okulwa namaSemite, ngaleyo ndlela kunciphisa isikhala sokulwa nomsebenzi.
"Amazwe amaningi kanye nezikhungo amukela izincazelo ze-IHRA kanye nezoMnyango Wezwe zokulwa nobuJuda, ezihlanganisa kokubili ukulwa namaJuda kwamaJuda," kuchaza u-Erdan, wengeza ngokuthi "isinqumo esiphusile seBundestag [isiJalimane. IPhalamende] ukuqaphela isimo esimelene namaSemite se-BDS kwakuyisinyathelo esibaluleke kakhulu okwamanjeโ.
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