Holocaust Remembrance Day: Jew-hatred is back

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Jew-hatred is back

"All Jews to the Gas" chants continue in today's German cities.

Seventy years after 60 percent of the world’s Jewish population was exterminated in Europe – including 1.5 million children – respected polls now reveal that 150 million or more Europeans carry anti-Semitic or extreme anti-Israel views. Violence and demonstrations against Jews continue.

Even after the unfathomable horrors he wrought upon the planet because of his own hatred of Jews, Hitler was correct: In his final testament, written April 29, 1945, he predicted that global hatred of his archenemy would continue. “Centuries will pass away,” he wrote, “but out of the ruins of our towns and monuments the hatred against … international Jewry and its helpers, will grow.”

Thursday is Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel and the United States; the human slaughters that took place in the middle of the last century are memorialized in other countries on other days of the calendar. Today’s date is 27 Nisan on the Jewish calendar, which relates to the event of 13 days before, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as well as Independence Day in Israel, which is eight days later.

Prescient to Hitler’s words, Germany continues to be a locus of Jewish hatred. Last summer, Frankfurt and Berlin saw rallies with chants of “All Jews to the gas” and “Hitler was right”. Contemporary Germany has some of the strongest laws against hate in Europe yet German authorities have not taken action.

Sirens wailed throughout Israel on Thursday morning. People stopped what they were doing and stood in memorial for two minutes for the six million victims of the Holocaust.

In a statement, U.S. President Barack Obama recognized that humans are “capable of unspeakable acts of evil” while saying that strength is drawn from the survivors, the liberators, and the righteous among nations who represented humanity at its best.”

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