Remembering the Shoah
The interior of Yad Vashem. Yesterday was Holocaust Remembrance Day. Were we not going through our own fascist moment, I would have written about it. But the living take precedence over the dead. However, the dead must never be forgotten. They must be remembered every day. Their stories must be told and retold. For their stories are the history of our species. Their stories instruct. Their stories tell the tales of our great falls and our great redemptions. The fact is that the global left has spent decades minimizing the Shoah, because its raison d'etre is hatred of Israel. It can't acknowledge that Israel was created as a refuge after the world's antisemitism eradicated half of the world's Jews. And spare me that "Europeans punished Arabs for their own sins" by recognizing Israel. Read this . Germany's allies in the Middle East sought to replicate the Shoah in their own lands. The sad realization is that "never again" was a lie. Even as soon a...
