
“Jesus said, They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they (antisemites) have not known the Father, nor me.” – John 16:2-3
“The LORD said, I will bless them that bless thee (Jews), and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.” – Genesis 12:3
THE ALGEMEINER reports: Anti-Israel protesters on Monday disrupted an event held at Auschwitz to commemorate the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust. Auschwitz is the infamous Nazi concentration camp in Poland.
The International March of the Living, an annual Holocaust education program that was founded in 1988, brings people from all around the world to Poland each year for Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day — Yom HaShoah — to march on the path leading from Auschwitz I to Auschwitz II-Birkenau, the Nazis’ largest death camp where one million Jews were murdered during World War II.
Survivors of the Hamas terror group’s Oct. 7th massacre in Israel joined 55 Holocaust survivors in this year’s march. However, amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and the coinciding record surge in global antisemitism, anti-Israel protesters gathered near the grounds of Auschwitz, sparking outrage.
Local police put up a barricade to prevent the demonstrators from approaching the marchers, who passed by as protesters shouted anti-Israel slogans.
Danit Ben David, 87, said she was outraged at the scene.
“How dare they come here, on this day,” she told The Algemeiner.
For many of the thousands of marchers this year, Holocaust Remembrance Day has taken on less of a historic tone and more of a current one, in light of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel that launched the war in Gaza.
“I have always feared for Jewish existence in the face of antisemitism,” said Phyllis Greenberg Heiderman, president of the International March of the Living.
“But never has the fear and the dread of the Holocaust been more palpable in our times.”… (Continue reading)
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