"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.
Today, January 27, 2026 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.
Two years, three months and twenty days ago on October 7, 2023, Hamas, an Iranian proxy, invaded and attacked Israel killing 1,200 and taking 240 hostages. This strike ignited a Middle East war between Israel and the terrorist organization Hamas, which has its base of operations in Gaza.
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.”
On December 14, 2025, an Islamic State (IS) inspired terror attack occurred at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, during a celebration of Hanukkah attended by 1,000 people. Two gunmen killed 15 people (11 men, 3 women and a 10-year-old girl).
Sadly, the Cuban dictatorship backs Hamas, and is spreading anti-Semitic tropes helping create scenarios that endanger Jewish lives around the world.
Seven 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, nor the last.
Sarah Milgrim and Yarón Lischinsky, two Israeli Embassy staffers, were gunned down outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington DC by Elias Rodriguez, a member of the Chicago branch of Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) on the evening of May 21, 2025.
It is happening again. Never again is now.
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. This month in Iran over 30,000 Iranians were murdered by theocratic regime in Iran for protesting against the government.
Anti-semitism remains the canary in the coalmine that warns us that something is terribly wrong.
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.
This afternoon, the European Parliament held a special session to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Survivor Tatiana Bucci will address MEPs, recalling Auschwitz and the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered in the Holocaust. You can watch it here.
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.
This solemn day marks 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the Nazi death camps and a site of terrible cruelty, where more than 1.1 million men, women, and children were systematically murdered.
— Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights (@TheRWCHR) January 27, 2026
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