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Rabbi Lowe Alerts: "The Promises Against Anti-Semitism - Without Teeth" Israel today

2020-01-23T08:10:19.355Z


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Former Chief Rabbi Speaks at the International Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem • Speaking to "Israel Today" He Says - "Willing to Commit Another Holocaust Will Not Occur," and Calls for Deepening Information Transmission on "Remembering Amalek"

  • Rabbi Israel Meir Lau // Photo: Gideon Markovich

Former Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, who chairs the Yad Vashem Council, is expected to address today's dozens of leaders from around the world, including those who have suffered from heavy anti-Semitism in recent years, on the occasion of the Holocaust Forum meeting in Jerusalem. For the first time ever in the capital of Israel, he says that this is to his liking an especially important rally for the State of Israel.

"Five world leaders will speak out, four of whom represent the Nazi superpowers - the US, Soviet Russia, England, and to some extent France. I will be the only one of the ten speakers who was in the Holocaust, the only one who experienced this, who lost father and mother as a small child. We have a very great command to remember and not to forget - we have a legacy to remember what Amalek did for us. Judaism must give much more room in its education and explanation to the topic of remembering Amalek. "There is a promise here to fight phenomena that might cause another, other destruction."

Photo: GPO

Rabbi Lowe attended a meeting in Auschwitz yesterday with hundreds of MPs from around the globe, and will now also speak in Jerusalem. Both conferences, he says, are critical to fighting the phenomenon of anti-Semitism. "They are supposed to give a partial answer to the fight against anti-Semitism and I hope they will spur the fight. We hear promises and statements but want teeth, grip and deterrence - for the sake of seeing and seeing - that all forces will fight together against these phenomena."

"We see a resurgence of anti-Semitism. If we used to see swastikas in the dead of night in the graves, today it is visible, in the sunlight - not only towards graves but towards living people. In the U.S., all over North and South America, not to mention the Middle Pier. I will not promise that this will never happen, another Holocaust, but, God forbid, it will be different. The fact that there is a Jewish state, which deterred Israel's haters, the fact that the IDF, with the results of wars in complete defeat of the enemy, is changing the reality in a definitive and clear way. "

Decades after the Holocaust, the rally will take place in Jerusalem for the first time. To Rabbi Lowe, this is not an accidental act. "We see people around the world today who relate to the Holocaust more than in the past. Ironically, it is precisely the Holocaust denial that has led to interest. People hear the denials and learn more and more about the atrocities. "The event is held in Jerusalem is a tremendous achievement and excitement. I have been to meetings in Auschwitz, the UN plenum and UNESCO in Paris. We are now seeing the connection where it all began, the object of the historic feeling of the Jewish people."

Source: israelhayom

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