Daniel

In 2022, Israel's net favourability among American men under 50 was minus 3. It's now minus 47. Support for Israel is becoming a fringe opinion in the West.

Antizionist hate, racism, and abuse depends on Jewish participation. It depends on the notion that no clear boundary exists—that anything can be said about Israel, that one is “allowed to criticize Israel.” As soon as one instead sets a boundary, and states that antizionism is a clearly definable, objective phenomenon that is unacceptable, the machine sputters, starts, and rolls to a deafening halt. No, an antizionist, who is a bigoted, prejudiced racist against Israelis, is not allowed to “critique” Israel, no more than a KKK member is allowed to say what they want about Black people. There is a line. It exists. It exists because antizionism exists—and because antizionism is morally wrong and unacceptable.

On Yom HaShoah, we pause to remember the six million Jewish victims of the Nazis' systematic program of mass murder, along with the millions of others murdered by the Hitler regime. We remember the scale of this horror, and the systems of hatred and dehumanization that made it possible — and that still echo in our world today. In New York City, home to more Holocaust survivors than anywhere else in this country, that memory lives among us and shapes who we are. The resilience of survivors is woven into the very fabric of this city, and it calls on all of us to act with courage and clarity in the face of injustice. Today, as antisemitism rises once more, we are reminded that remembrance alone is not enough. We must confront hate wherever it appears. As we light the yahrzeit candle, let us come together to protect its fragile flame — and shield it from the cold winds of hate and cruelty. "Never again" is a promise. And it is one we must fight to keep.

WATCH: Israel destroyed all of the town of Al-Khiam in southern Lebanon within a month.