Nazaret, Izrael. Ovih dana se u izraelskoj liberalnoj javnosti podigla prašina oko govora Predsednika Republike Srbije 27. januara. Izraelske liberalno-leve, čitane i praćene u celoj zemlji kao i u Dijaspori, posebno u SAD, Haartes novine prenele su govor našeg predsednika na sledeći način:
Serbian president: Nazis targeted Jews because of their over-representation in professions
Rights groups demand Tomislav Nikolic apologize for controversial Holocaust Day remarks.
Serbian human rights groups called on Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic to apologize for saying at a Holocaust commemoration that Nazis targeted Jews because of their over-representation in professions.
Nikolic “is spreading stereotypes about the Jewish people, saying that this minority was ‘over-represented in prestigious professions’,” said the January 28 statement signed by a number of Belgrade-based human rights monitors and civil society groups.
Among the signatories were Belgrade representatives of the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights and the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights.
In his speech on January 27, Nikolic said that for the Nazis, “the biggest threat was seen in the Jewish people, probably on the account of their characteristics and being prominent in the prestigious professions in the domains of finances, art and science,” according to a report by the government-run broadcaster, Voice of Serbia.
He spoke at a ceremony marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945.
Nikolic, who is friendly to Israel and spoke in the presence of the Israeli ambassador, members of Serbia’s Jewish community, and Holocaust survivors, made the need for remembrance the central point of his speech.
“The Holocaust was the most shameful and abominable event in the human history,” he said. “In the manner unique for its fanaticism and cruelty, a huge number of human lives perished in a short time, and it must never be forgotten.”
The statement signed by the human rights groups and activists stopped short of saying that Nikolic, whose politics are nationalist, is anti-Semitic, instead suggesting that his aides were ill-prepared.
Nikolic’ remarks “testify to the extremely bad preparation for public statements, ignorance and insensitivity to human rights,” the statement said.
nisam slušao govor i ne znam u kojoj meri je ovo istrgnuto iz konteksta. meni lično ni jedna ni druga strana ne ulivaju previše poverenja - niti te human rights grupe, niti predsednikova. kako god, šteta je napravljena, a Haarets, koji je pre samo nekoliko meseci pisao o tome da, parafraziram, "Izrael gradi svoje odnose sa Srbijom kojom vladaju ljudi koji su 1990-ih bili arhitekte najgorih zločina u Evropi nakon Holokausta" - pun tekst; Haarets dakle, ima određenu dozu anti-srpskog naboja, odnosno karakteristično "liberalno-levog" nesagledavanja potpune slike, već samo ideološki odgovarajućih delova slagalice.
potpune slike radi, i Jevrejska zajednica u Srbiji je reagovala na reakcije -
"Obraćanje predsednika Srbije Tomislava Nikolića u Spomen-parku Staro sajmište bilo je besprekorno, ocenio je rabin Jevrejske zajednice u Srbiji Isak Asiel. Nikolićev govor je bio jedan od najmoćnijih i najličnijih, smatra ambasador Izraela Josef Levi."
kako god, šteta odnosima dve zemlje (na uzlaznoj putanji tokom poslednje decenije) i dva naroda je napravljena, i na kraju je i Država pozvala, kako se to eufemistički veli, određene ličnosti "na konsultacije" u prestonom Jerusalimu.
lično, sumnjam da je naš predsednik, u dubini duše, antisemita - mislim da je on pre jedan titoista sa godinama života u sistemu indoktrinacije. no, to je samo moje mišljenje. a od'te vi sad u Vladu u Jerusalim pa objasnite da nije naš predsednik to tako mislio.
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