Jewish Voices For Peace: Holocaust Remembrance Day reflection

Israeli tank rolls through completely destroyed city

Source: JVP

Jewish Voices For Peace write: As we approach International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we are confronted with a devastating truth: What we vowed never to allow to happen again is happening, right now.

Today, Gaza is a shell of its former self. Entire neighbourhoods have been wiped from the face of the Earth, replaced by a gray wasteland unfit for human life: bustling markets and crowded cafes, libraries home to thousands of precious books, bakeries filled with the smell of fresh bread - all of it turned to ash.

This Saturday, Israel and the US will share solemn words about the Holocaust. They will tell us that we must never again allow this kind of evil to occur - even as both countries stand trial, respectively, for carrying out and complicity in the genocide of Palestinians.

One of the worst truths of the Holocaust is that such horrors can happen. It is entirely possible for a genocide to be carried out while the world watches, and it's happened more than once since the world vowed "never again."

Nearly four months into the genocide in Gaza, this is what we know…

Read the full message on Jewish Voices For Peace website HERE