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Daniel S. Mariaschin. Credit: B’nai B’rith International.

Daniel S. Mariaschin

Daniel S. Mariaschin is the CEO of B’nai B’rith International.

What seems to be missing in the indignant, self-absorbed statements by certain Congress members is a severe absence of self-respect for their country and for the “values” they say they hold.
The autocrats and opportunists at the United Nations lob any conceivable canard at Israelis, no matter how brazen; from “apartheid” to “gender-based violence” to “Judaizing” Jerusalem.
“Bau, Artist at War,” tells the story of graphic artist Joseph Bau, interned in the Krakow-Plaszów concentration camp from 1942 to 1945, and his wife, Rebecca Tennenbaum.
Those who claim the sky is falling because Israel is standing up to the neighborhood bully are either tremendously naive or find something appealing in Tehran’s culture of hate—or both.
A week or two of goodwill toward Israel following the terror attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, have morphed into a year-and-a-half of laceration of Israel for seeking to defeat an existential enemy.
Memory is not the work of a day. We must not lose a minute in telling—and retelling—what happened when the world turned dark.
For a country that exiled its Jewish community—and tortured and sentenced to death thousands of Jews—you would think that it would show some sensitivity towards Israel, recognizing the threats it faces.
Amid the war in Gaza, the new Hellenic-Israel relationship is weathering its first crisis.
We must tell our extraordinary story to open and fair-minded Americans.