Holocaust Survivors’ New York Association decries Armenia for demonizing Azerbaijan

The New York Association of Holocaust Survivors sent an official appeal in support of Azerbaijan to the world's largest centers for the study and preservation of the memory of the Holocaust.

“We, Jewish Holocaust survivors, together with the leaders of religious and public organizations, ask you to support our cause - the initiative against the cynical use of the Holocaust as a tool of foreign policy propaganda directed against Israel’s strategic partner, Azerbaijan,” Trend quotes a statement by the association.

The Association members noted that the shameless use of Holocaust symbols by Armenians is “a pure devaluation of the Holocaust and a misappropriation of the tragedy by those who erect monuments to Nazi collaborators in their capital”.

Previously, authoritative rabbis from Europe, America and Muslim countries, as well as numerous Jewish religious media around the world, expressed their objections to the use of Holocaust symbols by Armenian politicians, including Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, as a campaign to demonize Azerbaijan.

On September 6, 50 leading rabbis representing the largest association of Jewish religious leaders, known as the Rabbinical Center of Europe, collectively drafted an official letter addressed to the Armenian prime minister and president. In this letter, they demanded an immediate and complete end to the use of Holocaust symbols in Armenian propaganda, stating that they should not be used for any political purposes.