On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Dannon, wrote an opinion article titled, “Why are Jews still attacked worldwide?”
To answer this staggering question, Danon wrote:
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is meant to stop time. To force the world to confront the industrial murder of six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators.
We remember these atrocities because memory is supposed to protect the future and because education is meant to prevent repetition. But honoring the victims demands more than ritual; it demands responsibility.
That is why remembrance ceremonies take place, year after year, in institutions like the United Nations. This body was created on the foundations of the Holocaust itself, created on the promise that the world would not stay silent again while hatred escalated into annihilation.
But remembrance without action is hollow.
Because 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.
History teaches a hard truth: 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.
In the past year alone, synagogues have been firebombed. Jewish festivals have become hunting grounds, with the Bondi Beach massacre on Hanukkah and the Manchester terror attack on Yom Kippur.
Children’s parks in Brooklyn have been defaced with swastikas. Kosher restaurants are vandalized. Holocaust survivors have once again thrown themselves over loved ones to protect them from gunfire.
Hatred that begins with words does not remain words. It spreads. It legitimizes itself. And eventually, it kills.
Danon is right. One would assume that the world would have learned from the evil horrors of the Holocaust. Instead, we are again living in a time when antisemitism is spreading and devouring like a wildfire.
To further answer the question “Why are Jews still attacked worldwide?” we must also consider the spiritual battle that surrounds antisemitism—one that is demonic in nature.
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