There is probably no better example of a Holocaust survivor who devoted his life to learning the lessons of how to confront hatred and worked towards a better future than Elie Wiesel. He was a young man when his life – and the lives of millions like him – was completely turned from a struggling life of poverty into a life of hell. This was due to hatred, racist hatred, and specifically hatred of the Jewish people.
The world has changed in so many ways since the Nazi regime took over in 1932 and built up a war machine and killing machine the likes of which was never seen before. But the scourge of antisemitism has not disappeared. It has morphed. The German people are not the people who pose the danger to the Jewish people and the free world anymore. They are part of the free world due to their defeat in World War II, the successful occupation of much of their country for decades, and the defeat of the Soviet Union in the Cold War.
So who poses the danger today? It is the radical wing of the Islamic people, a much larger and more powerful threat to the Western world. Their hatred towards the Jewish people and other infidels is as great if not greater than the hatred that most Germans had towards the Jewish people. They celebrate death, support honor killings, while accusing the Jewish people of the very things they deeply believe in – genocide. They are deeply embedded in many European countries, and gradually are succeeding in making inroads in America’s Congress. New York City is now run by a radical Islamic mayor, democratically elected in by a majority of people who chose to increase the pace of their own demise by voting in socialist policies that will be led by a Jew-hater. The burning of France will be followed by the burning of many cities in England and other Western European countries.
If the United States does not begin to wake up soon, it will find more and more of it’s cities turning into versions of modern-day Paris and London. As Elie Wiesel tought millions, hatred will exist as long as the world exists. But for it to spread and fester, it also requires the moral people to be silent and not stand up to fight it.
If only the United Nations would be a body that would spread messages like these every day, the United Nations would serve it’s original purpose – of spreading goodness and peace across the world.