The frightening growth of anti -Semitism

The origins of anti -Semitism are drawn to the very origin of Judaism. Persecution, enslavement, exile, genocide, wrote the thousands of years of this ethnicity and religion. The epitome of the tragedy to the Jews took place in the 1940s, when more than 6 million were killed throughout Europe. In 1939 there were approximately 16.6 million Jews worldwide, 60% of them in and the rest spread in small communities by other continents. Even today, 80 years after the defeat of Nazifascism, the Jewish population did not recover their entire population, as the most optimistic estimates put the total number of Jews in the world in the range of 16 million people.

Holocaust’s incurable trauma shaped all world geopolitics since 1945, establishing the state of Israel, the day of memory to the Holocaust and rigid laws in the greatest democracies to curb any discriminatory act of anti -Semitic character. Unfortunately, anti -Semitism, as well as other ethnic and religious hatreds do not disappear only with legislation and treated, need a strong change in mentality achieved mainly with strong educational investments in the study of history and sociology. After the violent attack perpetrated by the terrorist group Hamas, killing more than 1100 Jews on a day, the most lethal day for the Jewish community since 1945, new anti -Semitic acts began to resurface around the world. From the prohibition of Jewish students to go to classrooms at universities in the United States, to David Stars Pications at the Jewish doors in Germany, the feeling of insecurity has been widespread among the community worldwide. Today, another heinous act of anti -Semitic root has materialized and reaped two lives.

Yaron Lischinsky was only 30 years old, his girlfriend, Sarah Milgrim, just 26. Both worked at the Israeli embassy in Washington DC and were cowardly killed as they left the city’s Jewish museum. The shots fired after a shout of “Palestine free” by the killer, reveal the political and ideological imprint of the crime perpetrated by Elias Rodriguez. Yaron was a researcher in the embassy’s political sector, while Sarah organized cultural trips to Israel, both would get married soon, and now none of that will happen. The ideological radicalism that permeated the university campuses around the world, caused the legitimate indignation to Netanyahu’s political strategy and the massacres in Gaza, became a widespread hatred by anyone who was Israeli and even Jewish.

Telavive’s response to Hamas’s terrorist attack, as expected and legal within international law, also reached levels of inhumanity. Violent bombings, the siege of more than two months to the Gaza Strip and the hunger made purposeful, clearly show that Netanyahu has been lost in their own blindness. The restlessness of world leaders and the civilian population in the face of what is reported daily by journalists in loco is a necessary and fundamental response to fight for a fairer world and defend the human dignity of the forgotten. However, using the tragedy in Gaza to justify the persecution and death of innocents is also to tear the humanity of people who do not belong to this conflict.

The atrocious act committed in Washington DC, did not feed any baby in Gaza, did not rebuild any destroyed residential complex and did not recover any of the lives lost by war. The murders of Yaron and Sarah are today a symbol of the same political and religious radicalism that enslaved the Jews in Babylon, gave an industrial scale to their deaths in Auschwitz and kidnapped hundreds in southern Israel. The intolerance and the hateful discourse propagated for merely political purposes will continue to extend this war of centuries, for many others. While the only way to supposedly do justice is through the blood of the innocent, we will continue to walk in this spiral of inhumanity.

*This text does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the young Pan.