by Rachel Sylvetsky & Yoni Kempinsky
The Auschwitz Death Camp was liberated on January 27, 1945. This is the date on which the world commemorates the attempted Nazi genocide of the Jewish people and the ongoing struggle against anti-Semitism.
At a press conference at the Jewish Agency headquarters in Jerusalem on Sunday, the Annual Report of the Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism was presented in preparation for Thursday's commemoration. Leaders in the subject of Diaspora affairs summarized trends in worldwide anti-Semitism. Present were Minister of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Yuli Edelstein, Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky, and Chairman of the JAFI Task Force on Anti-Semitism Amos Hermon.
The three agreed that “classic” anti-Semitism was statistically somewhat less common in 2010 than in 2009, when after Israel's anti-terorist Cast Lead Opeation in Gaza, Jew hatred reached record heights, but they warned of insidious new forms of anti-Semitism that allow hatred to go unchallenged. The campaign of deligitimization and demonization of Israel is the major threat against Jewish communities today, while extreme Islam has adopted a Nazi ideology.
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