In Auschwitz, Israeli religious leaders condemn extremism
Interfaith delegation speaks out against ‘hatred of the other’ during visit to Nazi death camp
The railway track leading to the infamous ‘Death Gate’ at the Auschwitz II Birkenau extermination camp on November 13, 2014, in Oswiecim, Poland. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
BY AFP AND TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
November 3, 2016, 3:57 am
Thirty top religious leaders from Israel’s Christian, Druze, Jewish and Muslim communities on Wednesday condemned extremism and “hatred of the other” during a landmark visit to Auschwitz.
The members of the Council of Religious Community Leaders in Israel repudiated “racism, fanaticism and extremism, particularly when these are committed, allegedly in the name of religion” in a statement issued following their visit to the grounds of Nazi Germany’s most infamous death camp.
They also called on world leaders to “act with unwavering resoluteness against anti-Semitism, (and) hatred of the other, which once again plague contemporary society.”
The delegation includes the Greek-Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem, the Armenian patriarch of Jerusalem, the Anglican bishop of Jerusalem, a Druze sheik, several rabbis, and two Sunni imams from Galilee.
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