Antisemitism
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Timed to coincide with Yom Hashoah—the day all of Israel stops to remember the Holocaust—“Before My Very Eyes,” the Yad Vashem Educational Center for Holocaust Remembrance, is opening at the Ariel Sharon Israel Defense Forces’ training campus in the Negev Desert.
The documentation argues that such decrees recognize that “refusing to do business with people because of their connections to the Jewish state, rather than their individual conduct, can be a form of anti-Semitism.”
“It is our job to ensure that their voice and their memory never dies out,” says Shmuel Rosenman, chairman of March of the Living.
Maritza Shelley will speak of her experiences on a death march and hiding in Nazi-occupied Budapest.
“The U.N. must change with the times and update its anachronistic regulations to permit the presentation of photos and video footage. Today, a picture or a video, especially from a reliable source, is worth a million words,” said Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan.
Approximately one-third of all Holocaust survivors in the United States live in poverty.
More than 2,715 instances of Jew-hatred, including assaults, were reported last year—an increase of 34 percent from 2020.
The campaign aims to raise Holocaust awareness and to put a spotlight on rising anti-Semitism.
A report released by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day shows that while only 3% of Jews lived in Israel in 1939, 45% live in the Jewish state today.
“The story of the Holocaust is relevant to every IDF soldier and officer,” said Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi.
“Most worrisome,” said the report, was the increase in violent incidents, which went from “nine in 2020 to 75 in 2021.”
The digital gathering is geared to address Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism worldwide.
