By Andres Kogan Valderrama
HAVANA TIMES – Following the killing of a Palestinian minor in Israel, Gabriel Boric opted not to receive the Israeli ambassador who was coming to present his credentials in Chile. Due to this, he’s been the object of unfair criticism on the part of some sectors.
He was rapidly painted as antisemitic by the Comunidad Judia de Chile [Jewish Community of Chile], as well as called “judeo-phobic” by some public figures, such as attorney Ricardo Israel.
These accusations seem to me deeply slanderous, pronouncing a judgement of such a serious nature on someone who has never sustained any kind of hate speech against the Jewish people, or anybody else. To the contrary, he’s defended human rights on a limitless scope, in many different places in the world.
A brief review of the criticisms that Gabriel Boric has issued of different governments in the world for human rights violations reveals that these are in no way limited to the State of Israel. Examples include Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Russia, The United States, Iran, China and Chile itself, as he recently did in his speech before the United Nations General Assembly.
For this very reason, the Chilean Jewish Community may disagree with Boric’s criticism of Israel for acting in a colonial and racist manner against the Palestinian people – although it’s an opinion many of us share – but to go from there to calling him an antisemite seems to me nonsensical.
Such accusations trivialize the concept of antisemitism and emp
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