Holocaust Remembrance: Never Again Is NOW
May 5-6 is Yom HaShoah 2024 (Heb. יוֹם הַשּׁוֹאָה – “The Catastrophe”), also called Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Nazi regime killed an estimated 17 million victims, including six million Jews massacred in the genocidal project now known as the Holocaust. But terrorist Hamas has vowed to commit a second Holocaust, another genocide, against Jews, even as a new generation of Western Nazis marches against Israel and in support of Islamic terrorists.
The Nazis in their concentration camps aimed to wipe out the Jewish people. Islamic terrorists are eager to finish the bloody work the Nazis did not fully complete; and, tragically, a new generation of anti-Semites is ready to cheer the terrorists and condemn Jews.
As Times of Israel wrote, “The shadow of October 7, when about 3,000 Hamas terrorists murdered some 1,200 people in Israel and abducted 252, looms large in the event [this year] at Auschwitz and at the March of the Living ceremony that preceded it this weekend in Budapest, in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Holocaust in Hungary.”
Hamas openly avows its intention to wipe Israel off the map and massacre Jews. Just like the Nazis of the last century, their intentions are no secret. The title “Palestinian” was first applied to a conglomeration of Arabs in the 1960s with the express intention of falsely claiming Israeli land, and now for years “Palestinian” children have been taught from the earliest ages that they should want to kill Jews (read quotes here). After all, it is not surprising. The Nazis and Islamic totalitarians were allies during World War II, because they both wanted to kill Jews. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The State of Israel tweeted, “This Yom Hashoah please don’t say never again unless you mean it.” The Jewish people are resilient and strong, they have endured centuries of persecution, and they have reclaimed their ancient homeland. But if we really want to say of the Holocaust “never again,” then we must wake up and stand up.
The first Holocaust occurred because people were too afraid or prejudiced or delusional to stand up. Now is our moment, our choice. We can stand with Israel and the Jews and tell the new Nazis and butchers, “Never again is now.”