{"id":10716,"date":"2025-04-23T16:19:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishpublicaffairs.org\/?p=10716"},"modified":"2025-04-23T16:19:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:19:19","slug":"on-yom-hashoah-we-must-honor-our-past-by-heeding-its-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishpublicaffairs.org\/press-release\/on-yom-hashoah-we-must-honor-our-past-by-heeding-its-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"On Yom HaShoah, We Must Honor Our Past By Heeding Its Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs<\/span><\/i><\/a>, released the following statement marking Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day):<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cYom HaShoah must be a reminder not simply to remember but also to act on the lessons of the Holocaust at a time when they are too painfully relevant.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese lessons are deeply resonant for me personally, as the granddaughter of survivors. My grandparents somehow survived the horrors, while their families weren\u2019t as fortunate. Over recent years, my family\u2019s stories have transformed from a piece of long-ago history to an urgent cautionary tale for our times, reminding us where hate, persecution, and dehumanization can lead.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAcross our public discourse, institutions, and politics, antisemitism is visibly on the rise and increasingly normalized \u2013 and it\u2019s happening alongside broader attacks on our core democratic norms and values and the rule of law that are so inherent to Jewish safety, and the safety of all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese questions of Jewish safety and democracy are inextricably linked, even as extremists seek to pit them against one another. When Jews are targeted, it makes every community and our democracy itself less safe \u2013 just as when any other community is targeted and our democracy is undermined, it makes Jews less safe.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd yet we now see antisemitic, white nationalist conspiracy theories and tropes mainstreamed by political leaders, civil society influencers, social media platforms, and others \u2014 underpinning dehumanizing policies and fueling a cycle of deadly violence against Jews and so many others. Meanwhile, over the last year and a half in particular, we have seen a horrifying spike in antisemitic efforts to target Jews in the name of Palestinian rights, and to divide us from the very movements, communities, and spaces necessary to advancing inclusive societies and democracy.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u201cThis is all happening alongside a broader onslaught of hate and dehumanization targeting immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, the Black community, and others.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf we truly are to learn from our history, it requires us to learn from <\/span>all<\/span><\/i> of it: unequivocally rejecting antisemitism no matter where it exists AND refusing to allow any community\u2019s rights or safety to be threatened \u2013 because our values demand it, and our history reminds us these threats will ultimately come for all of us.<\/span><\/p>\n

May the memory of the six million Jews and many others be a blessing and a lesson as we stand up against antisemitism, hate, and extremism in all their forms.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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