A Westminster Holocaust memorial will not alone reverse Britain’s rising tide of antisemitism

Feb 7, 2024 by Jill

by William Atkinson, Conservative Home:

Why do we build Holocaust memorials?

The answer is the same as for any form of Holocaust remembrance: “Never Again”. To force every subsequent generation to confront humanity’s most shameful act and acknowledge man’s unique capacity for inhumanity to man in the hope that the Nazi’s war of Jewish extermination is never repeated. There are over 300 memorials worldwide, from Albania to Uzbekistan. God died in Auschwitz. We should never be allowed to wholly move on.

But why do we need to build Holocaust memorials – we, as in Rishi Sunak’s Britain in early 2024? England has been no stranger to antisemitism. But we did not commit the Holocaust, and our war effort helped bring it to a close. We should be ashamed that we did not take more Jewish refugees before and during the wars. The crimes of the Nazis should appall any civilized human being. But we have never had to seek readmission to the human race.

Yet the need for remembrance and of fighting the cancer of antisemitism seems more pertinent now than at any other point in my lifetime. October 7th was the deadliest day for Judaism since the Holocaust. Since then, recorded antisemitic attacks against Jews in Britain have been at record levels. “Death to all Jews” has rung out on British streets. In Germany itself, the bitch that bore that bastard is back in heat.

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