The New Anti-Semitism

In the last few days of the Third Reich, in a bunker beneath the Chancellery, Adolf Hitler began writing his final will and testament. In it, he made this chilling prediction: "Centuries will pass, but out of the ruins of our towns and cultural centers, the hatred will renew itself against those ultimately responsible … international Jewry." Hitler was wrong. It didn't take centuries; it took less than sixty years for anti-Semitism to once again find a place in Europe and the Middle East. From the burning of synagogues, the desecration of cemeteries to Jews being beaten on the streets of Paris, Antwerp, and London, anti-Semitism has become a daily occurrence in our lives. Who would have believed, for example, that it would take only six decades for a president of a member state of the United Nations to have the audacity to call for the destruction of Israel, label the Holocaust a myth, and host a revisionist conference of Holocaust deniers. Even worse, that Ahmadinejad could do all this without suffering any consequences – that no one would even walk out of the hall in protest. Read full story here.