By Naomi Grant | November 12, 2021

The days leading up to the 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht on November 9-10—the first major event after Hitler’s rise to power that precipitated the Holocaust—have been eerily similar between a Torah destroyed at a George Washington University fraternity house and arson at Congregation Beth Israel in Austin.

Just a few weeks ago in Brooklyn, Sharee Jones doused the Yeshiva of Flatbush with gasoline and set it on fire. The lack of media coverage beyond local outlets and general lack of attention to such an obvious act of antisemitism are horrifying.

Antisemitism in 1930s Germany didn’t start with Kristallnacht—that was the first crescendo before the deportation of Jews began. It started with Hitler blaming Germany’s dire economic situation on the Jews. It started with boycotts of Jewish businesses and Jews themselves. 

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Jew-hatred is systemic across powerful institutions. It doesn’t only exist among far-left radicals on college campuses, like the thugs who attacked Israeli Ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely at the London School of Economics this week. Jew-hatred also exists at the center of the United Nations. 

The D.C. End Jew Hatred chapter is mobilizing on Friday, November 19 at the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to protest Jew-hatred there. 

For far too long, bigotry against Jews has been spread through the United Nations, under the guise of peace and human rights. This must end.