We are serious when we say: 'Never Again'

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On Oct. 7, Hamas terrorists carried out a barbaric attack against the population of Israel, killing over 1,400 Israelis and foreign nationals and kidnapping more than 200 hostages — from babies to Holocaust survivors — and dragging them off to Gaza. As President Joe Biden expressed, it was the “deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.”

The world rightly recoiled at these atrocities. Across America, elected officials, community leaders and thousands of Americans have taken to the streets in the days since, marching in support of Israel and calling for the release of the hundreds of innocent hostages who hail from Israel, America and nations around the globe. Families of the kidnapped have been forced to wait in agonizing limbo, relying on a brutal terror group for information about their loved ones’ well-being.

And yet, Jews in Israel and around the world have also watched as others marched in support of Hamas’s ISIS-style brutality. In Sydney, Australia, people were filmed chanting, “Gas the Jews.” And in New York's Times Square, an anti-Israel protester was photographed holding up a swastika symbol. On Wednesday, an iconic Jewish eatery on New York's Upper East Side was vandalized with a swastika as well.

Less than a century after the Holocaust, the world risks forgetting the stakes: When extremists call for the death of Jews, when they march through cities praising those who kill us, we must take them at their word. The Hamas massacre shows we do not have the luxury of doing anything else....
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/american-jews-hamas-nazis-new-york-rcna120454