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Posted By admin on April 20, 2024

Stand for Israel | April 19, 2024

Even as the Jewish state faces threats on all sides, Jewish people around the world are also facing anti-Semitism unlike anything theyve faced in decades. Writing at CNN, a Jewish survivor of the Dachau concentration campher family was rescued by Righteous Gentilestells of the frightening anti-Semitism she herself has faced, in America, in recent days:

Over the 65 years that I have called this beautiful area home, I have occasionally encountered antisemitism, but these one-off incidents never succeeded in destroying my spirit. When I was four years old, Nazis burst into my bedroom and sent me and my family toDachau, the first Nazi concentration camp. We were soon released and I was smuggled out of Germany by a Christian woman.After this harrowing experience, not much in the Bay Area could scare me.

But since theOctober 7 Hamas attackon Israel, the hatred towards Jews that I have seen in Berkeley terrifies me more than anything I haveexperiencedwhile living here. I am still reeling from being called a liar at aBerkeley City Council meeting,where I asked for a proclamation to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day and spoke about October 7. TheJews at that meetingwere circled and called Zionist pigs by menacing protesters.

We are approaching the holiday of Passover, which commemorates the freedom of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery and our formation as a free Jewish people in our own land. But this Passover is like no other in recent history, withscores of hostagesstill held in Gaza and Jews worldwidefearfulfor our future including Jews in the US. We are facing theworst global antisemitismsince the Holocaust and while it is not state-sanctioned as Nazism was, it is a threat going unchecked

Read the rest of this Holocaust survivors gripping piece at CNN.

Go here to see the original:

Holocaust Survivor on 'Frightening' Anti-Semitism of Today - International Fellowship of Christians and Jews

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