More than 300 rabbis in US have signed a petition calling on the Israeli government to stop selling weapons to Myanmar amid the Rohingya crisis. “As American citizens and as Jews, we refuse to accept any involvement by the US or Israel in training or arming a military that is carrying out a brutal ethnic cleansing against a minority population,” said the petition released on Thursday. The Voice of America in a report said, the petition demanded that Israel stop selling arms to Myanmar’s military and that the US stop military exercises. Also Read- Israel accused of selling military equipment to Myanmar during Rohingya crisisThe clergymen and women said the words “never again,” which emerged out of the ashes of the Nazi Holocaust, apply to violence against all minorities. According to the report, a separate group of Israeli rabbis has made a similar appeal.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 27, 2017 05:37 UTC