Powerful words were said this week, but they fail to satisfy Jewish communities that seek action against rising antisemitism

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Another Holocaust Remembrance Day came and went as the world continues to tear itself apart. If anything, October 7 proved to be a continuum of the violent antisemitism of past centuries — the Inquisition, Crusades, pogroms — all paving the way to the genocide of six-million Jews. Around two-thirds of European Jews were murdered in gas chambers, by bullets in killing fields and by their own non-Jewish neighbours.

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It took the United Nations 60 years to officially recognize the Holocaust with a day of remembrance, despite the fact that it was born from its ashes in 1945. Paradoxically, the UN is the primary purveyor of institutional antisemitism today through its relentless targeting of Israel.

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