Moreover, we need to recognize the nexus between and networking among those who traffic in hate and conspiracies in the United States, and other like-minded individuals and groups around the globe.
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When we allow anti-Semitism, racism, or other kind of intolerance to flourish here, other countries take that as license to do the same. I believe that the world looks to the United States for moral leadership. According to the 2020 survey by the American Jewish Committee, more than one-third of American Jews say they have been verbally or physically assaulted during the past five years simply because they are Jewish. In 2019, the ADL reported that anti-Semitism in America had hit a four-decade high. Jews make up fewer than 3 percent of the American population, but the majority of reported religion-based hate crimes target Jewish people or institutions. Sadly, these trends bear out closer to home, too. Such sentiments too often translate into violence, leading 40 percent of European Jews to report in 2018 that they lived in daily fear of being physically attacked. Over 30 percent of those surveyed said it was ‘probably true’ that Jews have too much control over financial markets, that Jews think they are better than other people, that Jews are disloyal to their country, and that people hate Jews because of the way that Jews behave.
The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) 2014 Global Index of Anti-Semitism found that more than 1 billion people – nearly one in eight – around the world harbor anti-Semitic attitudes. The hatred that gave rise to the Holocaust is still very much alive. It means that, under the right conditions, a similar atrocity could happen again. That terrifies me, because it means that the Holocaust was not an anomaly. I think they were taught by their communities to adopt a level of anti-Semitism and prejudice that likely would have be recognizable to many of us today, and that the Nazi propaganda masters exploited those feelings. I don’t believe that all of those people were born villains. Or men and women decided to avert their gaze and do nothing to stop the atrocities. Men and women agreed to turn over their neighbors, patrol the ghettos, drive the cattle cars, guard the death camps, and line people up to shoot them down. One of the most important things to understand about the Holocaust is that while a limited group of particularly evil monsters orchestrated it, they could not have succeeded without the active or tacit support of millions of average people. It is critical that we understand what happened to them, so that we can prevent it from ever happening again. But we carry an obligation, to those who perished and those who survived, to prevent further genocide and mass atrocities. It is difficult to comprehend the terrors that took place in Europe between 19. And we stand in awe and celebration of those brave souls who managed to survive. We honor the six million Jews and five million others – Roma, Afro-Germans, gay men and women, people with disabilities, and more – whom the Nazis brutally murdered. Today, the world comes together to remember the horrors of the Holocaust.
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