Yesterday, April 18, was Yom Hashoah, also known as Holocaust Remembrance Day. This is a day not merely to remember the victims of the Holocaust, but to look to the future. I am the descendent of two Holocaust survivors who saw their entire families murdered. My grandfather was a survivor of the death camp Treblinka where almost a million people were killed and only 60 survived. He fought every single day to stay alive. While their families were brutally murdered, my grandparents had to focus on survival.
As Israel and the Jewish people are threatened by Iran’s growing nuclear threat, we can do something. Iran grows closer to a nuclear bomb daily and has implied they plan to use it on the State of Israel. It does not matter if you have family that went through the Holocaust. It does not matter if you are a Republican or Democrat. It does not matter if you are Jewish.
What matters is that you do not stop remembering. You cannot stop remembering, especially when someone calls to “wipe Israel from the face of the earth” and to “eliminate them from the pages of history.” What if they mean what they say? I encourage you to learn about the issue, learn about the threat that grows daily with Iran’s growing nuclear capabilities.
A good place to start learning on Boston University campus is either the in the international relations department with Professor Kinzer or at Boston University Students for Israel, a group on campus whose sole purpose is to further education and support for the existence of the State of Israel. The issue of Iran’s nuclear capabilities is not about settlement building or the 1967 boarders. The issue we must stand up for is the right of people to live.
Anyone can sit down and say never again, but we have reached a point where it is time to stand up and shout it. We shout for all those who have died in the Holocaust because they were Jewish, for all those who live in Israel because it is the homeland of the Jewish people and democracy and for all those who recognize every human’s right to live without fear; never again!
-Jack Goldberg
COM 2013
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This is a beautiful and well written article. Kol Hakavod, (lots of respect).
While I agree with you on your point about Iran and learnign abotut he issues, applying the Holocaust for dealing with Iran is rather paranoid, counterproductive,. nad generally a poor comparison, as it rightly turns people off…