The statements on the state television of the daughter of Raúl Castro, Mariela Castro, deputy to the National Assembly of Popular Power, about the Hebrew nation, have outraged many Cubans, regardless of their belonging to that community.

In the table round entry «LGBTI activism in times of neo -fascism», the director of the official National Center for Sexual Education (CENEX) said that «there is no Jewish people, there is a Jewish religion» and that imperialism used biblical myths with the survivors of World War II «to lead them to colonize the territory of Palestine.»

“I felt offended. But, in addition, it shows ignorance what he has expressed, -that I think she is not ignorant.

«The Hebrew community took a statement that covers all the feeling of us, the Jews,» he added.

The Board of Trustees of the House of the Hebrew community of Cuba declared in an open letter that considers «Mariela Castro’s comments».

«This time it has gone too far. It is evident that the degree of impunity with which he expressed himself, reflecting a clear anti -Semitic feeling and an excessive hatred, not only demonstrates a deep contempt for the Cuban Jews and the entire world, but also encourages hatred within the Cuban population,» says the letter.

The text questions why if Jews are only people who share a religion, as Mariela Castro said, have been persecuted for centuries by other countries.

The document, disseminated on social networks, reflects the alarm of the Hebrew community in the face of the use of an official television space to broadcast «incoherent, hurtful, irresponsible and disrespectful criteria.»

The statement conceptualizes the comments of the deputy as «an obvious act of abuse of power» and warns that «wanting peace for the Palestinian people does not give any right to disqualify, curse, or attack the people of Israel.»

The Patronage statement emphasizes that «if Zionism is an ideology of supremacy, why their promoters accepted from the beginning the creation of an Arab State in the region, in exchange for a peace that until today has been rejected by several Arab leaders?”

«How does a television show of just one hour deny a history of cultural heritage and collective memory that covers thousands of years? Why is it allowed to broadcast opinions from ignorance?» He emphasizes.

Dr. Odalis Ponce de León Taño, a habanera who has worked with the elderly, told Martí News that Mariela Castro’s words were delezzar.

«You cannot speak so lightly about all the destruction that the Jews suffered and say that the victims are made. The victims were not made, they were victims. I believe that this deserves respect and one can have their opinion, but it has to be very careful when expressing it, especially if it does publicly, and if it does, in addition, a personality that is also public, and that it is overcome that it has a political support.»

The doctor took the opportunity to highlight that the Hebrew is «an extremely united and extremely human community, which supports its members, that never abandons them, and that it always has them present»

«From the interiority that I learned living with them, more what history taught me, I am in total disagree with the approaches of Mariela Castro,» Ponce de León concluded.

The Hebrew Cuban community, in its statement, reiterated its commitment to respectful dialogue, peace between peoples and the defense of their history, their culture and dignity.

«Ignorance cannot be an excuse for hate. Anti -Semitism, wherever it comes from, will never justification,» the organization emphasizes.

Mariela Castro has positioned himself in favor of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas and has shown her admiration for Hezbollah’s terrorists, who operate between Israel and Lebanon.

In November 2023, when Israel began its offensive in Gaza after Hamas’s attacks on its territory, Castro called to take arms against Tel Aviv.

For that same date, the Simon Wiesenthal Latin America Center (CSW) repudiated pronouncements of the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel against Israel, in which he accused the Hebrew nation of perpetrating a «holocaust» in Palestine.

«The last thing we needed was to have a Castroism and mediocre anti -Semitism at the same time because there is a mixture of a vulgar anti -Semitism since the absolute ignorance of the history of the Jewish people,» analyst Manuel Cuesta Morúa, vice president of the Council for the Democratic Transition in Cuba, lamented this Sunday.

«One could say that they did not have a long time, but denying the condition of the people of the Jews requires a lot Martí News.

«It is sad that that has happened. I hope that the entire Jewish community and all the civilized world realize that this is not a reflection of Cuba; this is the exception of Cuba,» he concluded.