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Source: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-884556
Why Are Jews Still Attacked Worldwide?
(Jerusalem Post) Amb. Danny Danon - International Holocaust Remembrance Day is meant to force the world to confront the industrial murder of six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators. Education is meant to prevent repetition. But remembrance without action is hollow. While solemn words are uttered, Jewish people are being attacked worldwide for being Jewish. Antisemitism is spreading with alarming speed, and the institutions built to confront hatred are too often enabling the pernicious narratives that sustain it. Genocide does not begin with mass killings. Long before that, it begins with gradual dehumanization. With language that strips a people of legitimacy. With lies repeated until they sound like fact and with moral confusion masquerading as neutrality. Today, antisemitism often disguises itself as hostility toward Israel, in rhetoric that treats Jewish self-determination as uniquely illegitimate. When violence is justified because someone is Jewish, it is antisemitism. When it is justified because someone is Israeli, it is no different. Hatred is enabled by authority. When false claims are repeated from international podiums, they travel the world stamped with legitimacy, and they harden into belief. The good news is that today the Jewish people are no longer defenseless. We have Israel. While we still face genocidal regimes like Hamas and the Islamic Republic of Iran, who continue trying to do what the Nazis failed to do, we have a formidable military to protect us. The days when Jews are massacred without response or consequence are over. The writer is Israel's ambassador to the UN.