Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, except people don’t. After the Holocaust, the pledge was “Never Again” – except it happens again and again.
Last Saturday’s Wall Street Journal had an article on “The Communities That Risked Everything to Rescue Jews.” It was a moving article about countries (Denmark, Albania), islands (Zakynthos, a Greek isle), and communities (the Frenchtown of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon) who protected their Jews.
But how many people are risking much of anything to protect others today. Consider Rwanda in 1994. Think of the “bug out” of Kabul in 2021. And why did it take the U.S. and Germany so long to finally send tanks to Ukraine, where Vladimir Putin has been deliberately attacking civilians with rockets for months? Some of those are not genocides (“genocide” is a word too easily thrown around today), but there are still innocent lives being lost that we could be doing something about.
But perhaps the most depressing thing on this Holocaust Remembrance Day may be the fact that the one thing uniting more and more of the far right and far left is hatred of Jews.
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