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Today marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day which exists to honor the memory of six million Jews murdered by the Nazis and serves to ensure that the world never again enables genocide through indifference, denial, or moral cowardice.
In the more than two years since Hamas’s October 7th massacre, the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust, the Combat Antisemitism Movement’s (CAM) research has documented the systematic renormalization of denial.
CAM CEO Sacha Roytman issued the following statement:
“Eighty years after Auschwitz, we face an unsettling truth: the language created after the Holocaust is being warped in ways that endanger Jews.”
“Remembrance is a responsibility. As a third-generation descendant of Holocaust survivors, I carry a legacy that demands more than ceremony. My grandfather rebuilt his life with resilience and faith in humanity, but his greatest fear was not only what he had endured, but what might be forgotten. He understood that hatred returns when words lose meaning and when truth becomes negotiable.”
“History teaches us that propaganda has consequences. In global institutions and courts, rhetoric is too often used to dehumanize and lead to verdicts, sanctions, and, most dangerously, permission to acts of violence. When rules and definitions are rewritten to ensure that Jews are uniquely denied the protections others take for granted, the promise of universal human rights is exposed as conditional.”
“Governments, institutions, educators, and civil society must understand that ‘Never Again’ is a demand for moral clarity, intellectual honesty, and the courage to defend truth. The world must wake up to what Jew-haters have been promising and not ignore their emboldened action nor inciteful rhetoric before it is too late yet again.”
