Yom Hashoah, which begins on Wednesday night, serves as an annual day for Jewish remembrance of the Holocaust.
This is of course important in and of itself. But it is no less important that when we consider the Holocaust we look at it in the broader context of antisemitism throughout history.
The events of the Shoah may have begun and ended in Nazi Germany, but it did not arise out of thin air. It is impossible for anyone to understand the Holocaust and to learn lessons from it without considering that longer context of millennia of antisemitism.
That history continues. This week we report how the chant, “Khaybar, Khaybar Ya Yahud, Jaish Mohammed Sauf Ya’ud” (Watch Out Jews, Remember Khaybar, the Army of Mohammed is returning) has been repeatedly uttered on the streets of Britain without a single person having ever been charged over what is a clear incitement to racial hatred.
