‘End Jew Hatred Day’ Declared by New York State Sen. Elijah Reichlin-Melnick

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The day after Yom Hashoah 2022, New York State Sen. Elijah Reichlin-Melnick (D) presented a declaration naming April 29 “End Jew Hatred Day.” He issued the declaration at the Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and Education in Suffern, NY, near the center of the large local Orthodox community. Reichlin-Melnick began his remarks by noting the Empire State leads the country in antisemitic incidents. New York’s state legislature will have to recognize the proposed annual event for it to become official.
— The Jerusalem Post

Quote: “[Reichlin-Melnick] addressed the audience, consisting of elected officials, representatives of major community organizations and members of the community, saying, ‘How do we shift the growing trend from hate and violence to love and tolerance? All of you who are here today are part of that solution. This [#EndJewHatred] movement is part of that solution.’ ”
— The Jerusalem Post

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“[T]he foundations for extremism usually are held in check by various restraints. Societies are not liberal, moderate, progressive, and free because almost all their citizens – let alone their politicians — are liberal, moderate, progressive or committed to the freedoms of others.

“But societies consistently avoid extremism when the infrastructures of freedom are strong: when key institutions and norms encourage a more decent, rights-respective, lawful politics; when powerful social movements and independent media hold leaders to account, expose rather than reinforce political fantasies, and champion the rights of the vulnerable; and when information is produced and scrutinized by scholars, civil servants, and non-governmental organizations devoid of either government repression or vested interests.

“Yet no infrastructure is rigidly immovable, and once key components are eroded and weakened, once sections of the political and cultural elite attempt to mobilize the foundations of extremism, the system of restraints can swiftly collapse.

“While genocide on the scale of the Holocaust is historically exceptional, its central lesson is that the broader danger of extreme atrocities is not. In the words of the great historian Ian Kershaw, the Holocaust ‘lit a warning beacon that still burns brightly: it showed how a modern, advanced, cultured society can so rapidly sink into barbarity… It showed what we are capable of.’ Only by rejecting false narratives of conflict and polarization, and maintaining systems of rights and freedoms for all, can we hope to prevent that capability from once more becoming a reality.”

— Jonathan Leader Maynard in his incisive article “Could It Happen Here?: The Holocaust and Atrocities in the 21st Century” To read the entire article, click here.