Yom HaShoah
Eighty years ago, fascism swept through Europe and the Pacific. Eighty years ago, fascism killed 6 million Jews, and 7 million Rroma, communists, homosexuals, and other undesirables. We still have not recovered. We will never recover. The atrocities committed by the Nazis are some of the most horrific the world has ever seen. The world looked away. The German people, the Austrian people, the Polish people, closed their eyes as their neighbors were taken, Jews and gays and communists and Rroma. The President of the United States knew and did nothing, turned away the boats filled with refugees that arrived on his coastline. The world allowed the Holocaust to happen. We must not forget. We must never look away from this. Today, on Yom HaShoah, we stand in solidarity with all victims of fascism, in Europe, in Asia, and beyond. We stand in solidarity with the victims of genocide, in Europe, in Armenia, in the United States, in the Americas, in Rwanda, in Arabia, and beyond. Today we must remember that the world did not stand up to fascism 80 years ago. Today we must stand up to fascism, in all forms. Today we must commit ourselves, in a way we have failed to do in the past, to that phrase, that mantra, “Never Again.” Long live the worldwide Antifa.
