President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order to fight antisemitism, with a focus on campus demonstrations against Israel.
The virulent antisemitism that led to the Holocaust is still rampant around the globe today, World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder said against the backdrop of Monday’s solemn commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi concentration and death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday focused on countering antisemitism, in what the White House described as an effort to “marshal all federal resources” to “combat the explosion of antisemitism on our campuses and in our streets since Oct. 7, 2023.”
Antisemitism has reached “deeply alarming” levels around the world by doubling in the past decade, according to ADL.
M onday, Jan. 27, marks 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Ten days prior to the opening of the gates, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews, was detained. He disappeared and his fate remains unknown.
As Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked on Jan. 27, a town in southwestern Germany unflinchingly confronts its past and reaches out to Jews.
As antisemitism surges globally in the wake of October 7, an unlikely phenomenon provides grounds for cautious optimism: the emergence and continued operation of Holocaust museums and exhibitions in Muslim-majority countries.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated on January 27, 1945. 80 years later, it is our responsibility to remember. #WeRemember.
The building blocks of civility include creating understanding through respectful dialogue and dropping assumptions.
Both state and non-state actors have been urged to reflect on history and condemn actions that threaten the dignity and safety of vulnerable populations worldwide.At a commemorative event in Accra on Tuesday to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day,
A far-right Polish member of the European Parliament disrupted a moment of silence for the victims of the Holocaust in order to decry “the Jewish genocide in Gaza.”