Ninety years ago, in 1936, the World Jewish Congress was founded in Geneva. Europe was already beginning to exhale the smell of moral collapse. Nazism was advancing, Jews were being progressively excluded from public life, and much of the democratic world still believed everything could be contained through diplomacy, silence, or denial.

The World Jewish Congress emerged from the understanding that Jews needed organized international political representation in the face of an existential threat.

Ninety years later, one uncomfortable question becomes unavoidable: how much did we really learn?

The October 7, 2023 massacre — the largest pogrom against Jews since the Shoah — should have produced immediate........

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