{"id":15025,"date":"2021-01-28T00:13:46","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T00:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voiceofsalam.com\/?p=24471"},"modified":"2021-01-28T00:13:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T00:13:46","slug":"this-holocaust-memorial-day-we-need-to-stand-together-against-antisemitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/28\/this-holocaust-memorial-day-we-need-to-stand-together-against-antisemitism\/","title":{"rendered":"This Holocaust Memorial Day, we need to stand together against antisemitism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Elizabeth Arif-Fear<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every year, on 27th<\/sup> January, the world commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remembering the horrors of the past is essential in order to ensure we stop such tragic events from repeating themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This date is particularly poignant as it marks the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau<\/strong><\/a> concentration camp, where at least 1.1 people were murdered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the Holocaust, Jews, Roma, members of the LGBT+ community, political prisoners, disabled individuals \u2013 the \u201cunwanted\u201d of the Nazi regime \u2013 were brutally and systematically killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within the Jewish community, six million were murdered<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 simply for being Jewish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, where 1.1 million people were murdered.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This horror, as we say every year, is something that we must never ever forget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it\u2019s because we must never forget that commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day is so important<\/strong>. By doing so, we can remind ourselves of the dangers and injustice of antisemitism and the tragic yet all too very real reality that antisemitism did not start or end with the Holocaust<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year marked 75 years since the liberation of the camp (one of many). And this year sadly, we continue to see the rise in antisemitism globally \u2013 across the USA, UK, wider Europe and further afield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online abuse, incidents of hate crime in the street \u2013 even terrorist attacks on synagogues \u2013 are showing us that there is still so much more work that needs to be done to counter such hate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antisemitism in Europe today: Growing hate<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Antisemitism has grown in recent years across Europe.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Back in 2018, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)<\/strong><\/a> conducted the largest survey worldwide on the issue of antisemitism. After concluding their research, the results were far from positive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study involved analysing the responses of 16,395 self-identified Jewish people (aged 16 or over) in 12 EU Member States (pre-Brexit!). This included: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom (4,731 samples), as these nations are where 96% of the EU\u2019s estimated Jewish population were living at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The research found that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n