Palestine: outing state-sponsored Jew-hatred

Brazil's decision - which smacks of the infamous Nazi "Judenrein" policy that called for the mass deportation of Jews from their homes and businesses before and during World War II - is in breach of existing international law specifically:

• Article 6 of the Mandate for Palestine - which recognized the right of the Jewish people to reconstitute the Jewish National Home in precisely the area that Brazil now wants to see cleared of Jews - which Brazil itself agreed to when the Mandate was unanimously approved by the League of Nations in 1922
• Article 80 of the United Nations Charter - which preserved the rights of Jewish settlement granted by the Mandate - which had also been endorsed by Brazil when the UN Charter came into being.
  

Both Argentina and Uruguay were also - like Brazil - consenting signatories to the Mandate and Article 80.

One cannot stop people or States being Jew-haters but on the other hand they need to be identified and exposed - especially when such hatred is State-sponsored. Racism and vilification of this kind have no place in the Government of any State.

In the case of those States which choose to follow Brazil and Argentina - one would hope to see their citizens protesting loudly at such a decision and publicly denouncing their Government. Other States should also respond accordingly. Standing by and doing nothing will only stigmatize those other States as closet Jew-haters.

Neither Brazil nor Argentina has made any call on the PA to recognize Israel as the Jewish National Home in return for the recognition they have now extended to the PA.

Brazil and Uruguay supported the creation of a Jewish State proposed by the UN in 1947. Argentina abstained.

All three countries became places of refuge for fleeing Nazis at the conclusion of World War II. Their shadowy past seems to be coming back to haunt them.

Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay never recognized the attempted annexation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem by Transjordan in 1950.

Israel's position on the status of these areas was explained by Israel's then Foreign Affairs Minister - Moshe Sharett - in Israel's Parliament on 3 May 1950 as follows: