The Uruguayan Jews explained their position at a press conference and urged the Uruguayan government to sever relations with Tel Aviv.

In the statement, they said that they do not want persecution or a holocaust against any people in the world, express their rejection of “the genocidal policy of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government against the Palestinian people,” and demand that the State of Israel immediately stop “the massacre, the blockade, and the violation of all fundamental freedoms and human rights of the population of Gaza Strip and the West Bank.”

They also demand that “Israeli settlers withdraw from the occupied territories, returning to the 1967 borders, and that the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination be respected.”

The signatories demand that the government of President Yamandu Orsi immediately cut diplomatic relations with Israel, in accordance with the “rulings of the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice.” It is impossible to engage in talks, conduct business, purchase arms, or engage in any type of exchange with those who are bombing and shooting at an entire population, condemning them to starvation, they point out, referring to Uruguayan military purchases from Israel.

Among the signatories are two journalists; a human rights activist; a musician; a university professor; a political analyst; a union leader; Irene Bleier, daughter of Eduardo, a detained and disappeared person during the dictatorship; the writer and journalist Alicia Migdal; and Daniel Mordecki, director of the Agency for Electronic Government and the Information and Knowledge Society.

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