‘Men, women, and children cry out to us from the depths of the horror that they knew. How can we fail to heed their cry? No one can forget or ignore what happened. No one can diminish its scale.”
These were some of the words spoken by Pope John Paul II in March 2000 at Yad Vashem, the museum in Jerusalem dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler had a particular genocidal hatred for Jews. I wish I could say that the recent increase in violence against Jews in the United States has to do exclusively with Islamists who want to send a message about U.S.–Israeli military action in Iran. But antisemites don’t need an excuse to prowl about the world seeking the ruin of the Jewish population.
