pjmedia.com By Rabbi Michael Barclay
January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and the United Nations needs to take an honest look at its own history through the lens of this holiday — one that the organization itself created.
Since 1951, there has been an Israeli holiday of Yom HaShoah in remembrance of the six million Jews who died during the Holocaust. But in 2005, the United Nations adopted Resolution 60/7, creating a holiday with a two-fold purpose: to remember the Jew hatred that led to 6 million deaths and to educate future generations about the Holocaust so that they can never forget, ignore, or worse, deny it.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon defined the holiday in his speech on Jan. 19, 2008, at its second observance:
The International Day in memory of the victims of the Holocaust is thus a day on which we must reassert our commitment to human rights.
We must also go beyond remembrance, and make sure that new generations know this history. We must apply the lessons of the Holocaust to today’s world. And we must do our utmost so that all peoples may enjoy the protection and rights for which the United Nations stands.
He phrases it well: to “make sure that new generations know this history” and to “apply the lessons of the Holocaust to today’s world.” These are simple, important, and noble intentions. Yet the United Nations itself seems to have done everything it could to fight for the exact opposite of the intentions of this resolution…
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