Jewish and Israeli Holidays
Holocaust scholar Debórah Dwork held a book launch at the United Nations.
Grezegor Braun was asked to leave the plenum and apologized to those present.
The gaslighting is “particularly galling” given “what has happened over the last 15-plus months,” Sam Markstein, of the Republican Jewish Coalition, told JNS.
“You do not need to be a Jew to stand against antisemitism,” one of the attendees, many of whom fled persecution abroad, told JNS.
The Hamas terrorist organization “drew inspiration from Hitler and the Nazis in attacking Israel on Oct. 7, 2023,” the Israeli president told the United Nations.
Gabriella Major told attendees at an AJC event that she survived the Holocaust based on a stroke of luck some 80 years ago.
The canceled visit due to security concerns shows “leaders’ ‘Never again’ declarations are hollow,” the European Jewish Association chairman said.
This evening’s lights are “a memorial to the 6 million lives lost and a bright reminder of our unwavering solidarity,” Mayor Eric Adams said.
“I demand the world remember what happened only 80 years ago,” she said.
“The history of the Holocaust is one of total moral collapse, dehumanization, complicity and unimaginable atrocities,” said the official who represented the United Nations at the event.
Holocaust survivors and scholars said the international community’s abandonment of the Jewish state belies its promises to learn from the genocide.
This year’s commemoration marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
