![]() I’m guilty of this too – as a Christian, I saw Jews and Judaism solely as a religious people and religion.īut like most things about humanity, it’s much more complicated than that. Whoopi Goldberg’s statements about the Holocaust is a prominent example of mis-education and ignorance fueled by white supremacy culture and colonialism that created the construct of race. There are overt forms of antisemitism happening, like the swastikas at the trucker protest (which was supposed to be about COVID vaccine’s, for goodness’ sake!) There are also more subtle ways that negative stereotypes and ideologies about Jews are integrated into our society, including TV shows and movies (like Harry Potter □ – Alice talks about this in the podcast). In fact that is an even more serious phenomenon.” Irwin Cotler is Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, and in his recent interview with the CBC, he said: “We have to combat Holocaust distortion as well as Holocaust denial. So as Yom Hashoah approaches this year, and antisemitic sentiment continues to rise – what are some steps you can take to support the Jewish community? JEDI ACTIONS 1st: Learn. But as Alice explains in this excerpt, the liberation of Auschwitz does not have the same significance for Jewish people: chose for remembrance is January 27, the date that Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated during World War II. ![]() established their international commemoration day in 2005. Yom Hashoah was established by the Knesset (Israel’s Parliament) in the 1950s the U.N. I think this brings up how important it is (in equity and antiracism work) to keep the focus centered on the people who lack equity, and not the work itself. Yom HaShoah though is not just a time of grieving, but it's a time of remembering, the Jewish resistance that was also put up during that time.” For myself, that day of remembrance in January is really a time to grieve with some of those other communities, like the Romani people. “While the Jewish people were a primary group that was targeted during the Holocaust, we were not the only group. the United Nation’s “International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust”: One of the things that struck me most was Alice’s clarification of the meaning behind Yom Hashoah vs. Alice asked if she could share her story and speak against antisemitism on my podcast, and I’m honoured to release her episode this week on the day of Yom Hashoah. ![]() Alice is an Ashkenazi Jewish woman whose grandfather survived the Holocaust in Germany and eventually moved to the U.S. I’m not Jewish, and before I met Alice Henry, I had no idea what Yom Hashaoh was. Shoah is the Hebrew term for the Holocaust, and the full name of Yom HaShoah VeHagevurah literally means the “day of remembrance of the Catastrophe and the Heroism.” This year, it begins the evening of April 27, and ends the evening of April 28. If you’re Jewish and/or live in Israel, your answer is probably yes. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the B’nai Brith completes their annual audit around this time, or that Jerusalem is hosting a meeting of Special Envoys against antisemitism this week, because Yom Hashoah is two days from now. There was a 733% increase of violent incidents in 2021compared to 2020, and the total number of antisemitic incidents equated to almost eight per day in 2021. JEDI Friends, did you see the B’nai Brith report yesterday on the rise in antisemitism in Canada? (If not, you can read the full report here.)
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