On Friday before the start of the Sabbath, Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin tweeted his call to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
On I join many thousands around the world in this clear call . We will not forget. https://t.co/VmOp18uAcG pic.twitter.com/LLQ3cCpKx2— Reuven Rivlin (@PresidentRuvi) January 27, 2017
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.
Remembering the 6m Jews who perished in the must be acompanied with a commitment to fight . https://t.co/XsXtkbhWTy pic.twitter.com/oayDtIJDxy— Israel ישראל (@Israel) January 27, 2017
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.