Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, but this year’s commemoration is particularly important. With the ongoing conflict in Israel and anti-Semitic crimes spiking in America and around the world, “Never Again” is now.
From the Hamas atrocities in Israel to the explosion of anti-Jewish hatred on American college campuses to governments and international organizations siding with Gazan terrorists against Israel, violent anti-Semitism has again reared its ugly head. Did we learn nothing from recent history?
During the Holocaust, between 5.8 million and 6.6 million Jews were massacred by Nazis. The global Jewish population never recovered from the Holocaust. I went to the Holocaust museums in Washington, D.C. and Jerusalem, and I researched the horrors of the death camps, and a mantra that surfaced over and over was “Never Again”. We must never allow such a mass murder of Jews to occur again. Yet with Oct. 7 we saw the worst single day of slaughtering Jews since the Holocaust, and much of the world — instead of rallying around the obvious victim, Israel — immediately began backing or sending aid to the jihad-loving, Hamas-controlled Gazans!
Never Again is now. The so-called Palestinians will never stop trying to obliterate Israel off the map and never be satisfied with mere concessions from Israel (as they weren’t satisfied with being given the nation of Jordan or the Gaza Strip). The United Nations (UN) is knowingly assisting terrorists in Gaza, and nations including America sending aid to Gaza might as well skip the pretense and give the resources straight to Hamas. The Muslim migrants in Europe and America and Australia, along with many men in Muslim-majority nations, are riled up with anti-Semitic and anti-Western hatred, and an unknown number of terrorists are entering the U.S. through our open southern border.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) deliberately stokes anti-Semitism in schools, which is why students and professors march about chanting terrorist slogans. Between Oct. 7 and Jan. 7, anti-Semitic incidents reportedly tripled in the United States. Our existential enemies, the Iranian regime and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), are backing Hamas. We seem to be on a terrifyingly slippery slope toward another Holocaust.
The first Holocaust didn’t begin with the gas chambers. There was first the name-calling, then the societal shunning, and the political targeting and Kristallnacht, and then the deportations to the camps and the Final Solution. Before Auschwitz there were the yellow stars. Germany was a very civilized country before it turned to Nazi butchery. Eighty percent of American voters support Israel against Hamas, but a violent minority can wreak a great deal of havoc, as we saw with the 2020 riots. Is it really impossible for such a nightmare to happen here?
We must fight and denounce the anti-Semitism and be ready to stand with our Jewish brethren in a world increasingly hostile toward them. We must insist our elected officials stand against anti-Semitism and force more accountability through public scrutiny to oust jihad-justifying individuals in our universities and other institutions. We have here a chance to make a different choice than the citizens of Nazi Germany did. Never Again is now.
