"It happened, therefore it can happen again: this is the core of what we have to say. It can happen, and it can happen everywhere." - Primo Levi, 1986 The Drowned and the Saved
Never Again is Now.
Tomorrow, January 27, 2025 is recognized by the United Nations as International Holocaust Remembrance Day and is observed around the world.
We must never forget what happened, six million Jews murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust, and remain vigilant now and in the future to battle against the mass destruction of innocent human beings.
Primo Levi was right, it can happen anywhere - even in Israel, and even here.
This was the largest mass killing of Jewish people since the Holocaust. Two days after the Hamas terrorist attacks, before Israel had responded to the attacks, on the steps of the Sydney Opera House in Australia over a thousand protesters chanted, “Gas the Jews.”
Sadly, the Cuban dictatorship backs Hamas, and is spreading anti-Semitic tropes.
Six years and three months ago on October 27, 2018, Robert Bowers entered the Tree of Life synagogue with an AR-15, and three handguns shouting anti-Semitic slurs and opened fire killing eleven, and wounding six others.
It was believed to be the deadliest attack against Jewish people in U.S. history, but it was not the first.
Unfortunately the international community has failed more than once since 1945 to prevent another mass slaughter. Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge murdered between one fourth and one third of its population between 1975 and 1979, civil libertarian Nat Hentoff pointed to another genocide that could have been stopped in Rwanda in 1994, and in 2016 we witnessed another in Syria where religious minorities, including Christians were being targeted.
Today, we are witnessing the genocide of Muslim Uyghurs in China.
It is important to remember that antisemitism is on the rise world wide and people of the Jewish faith need our solidarity and support now more than ever in confronting rising hatred and intolerance to ensure that what Nazi Germany did never be repeated.
At the same time it is also important to remember and honor the martyrs and heroes who resisted the Nazis. One of these heroes was Raoul Wallenberg, who saved over 100,000 Jewish people, and was disappeared by the Soviets in January 1945.
They are
exemplars in moral courage that are much needed today. Let us continue the fight.
"How We Must Continue to Fight Antisemitism 80 Years After the Liberation of Auschwitz"
— Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights (@TheRWCHR) January 26, 2025
The latest piece for @TIME magazine by our Founder and International Chair, @IrwinCotler and the Chair of our Board @JayRosenzweig:https://t.co/kL93gQEMXk
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