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Israel's President Reuven Rivlin remembers the Holocaust. Always.

On Friday before the start of the Sabbath, Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin tweeted his call to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon noted in a tweet that “Even today, in 2017, many Jews around the world are afraid to walk in the streets with a kippa (yarmulka) on their head.”

Sixty-seven percent of Jews witnessed of experienced anti-Semitic incidents involving abusive language or insults.

Fifty percent of European and North American Jews have either witnessed or experienced anti-Semitism in the past year, and 72 percent of European Jews do not feel safe wearing a kipa, according to the latest statistics quoted by Israel’s foreign ministry.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pointed out in his statement to mark the day that the Holocaust was the culmination of millennia of hatred, scapegoating and discrimination targeting the Jews – anti-Semitism.

Let’s hope this UN leader remembers his wise words when he is forced to deal with the anti-Semitism that inevitably arises in the UN each year.


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Hana Levi Julian is a Middle East news analyst with a degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from Southern Connecticut State University. A past columnist with The Jewish Press and senior editor at Arutz 7, Ms. Julian has written for Babble.com, Chabad.org and other media outlets, in addition to her years working in broadcast journalism.