"Thirteen years ago, the United Nations General Assembly designated Jan. 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an occasion for its member nations to commemorate Nazi Germany's murder of 6 million Jews and millions of others. The UN also urged nations to use the occasion to educate their citizens about the horrors of the Holocaust to help prevent future acts of genocide...
European Forum on Anti-Semitism, a watchdog group founded in 2008, reported 767 anti-Semitic incidents across the continent in the first half of 2017, a 30% rise from the previous year and the highest number it has since recorded. In Caracas, Venezuela, Foreign Policy magazine reported increasing instances of graffiti with phrases like 'be patriotic: kill a Jew.'
Many have raised their voices about this threat - but not the UN... on issues of rising anti-Semitism and extremism, the UN - the very international body that annually calls on its members to do more to prevent another Holocaust - does nothing.
In fact, the UN General Assembly has become a forum for singling out and targeting Israel - the Jewish state created so that Jews would never again be defenseless...
So on the one hand the UN pays lip service to commemorating the Holocaust, but on the other has allowed itself to become a politicized weapon against the Jewish state and has done nothing to combat the global rise in anti-Semitism...
The UN that today continually seeks to undermine the very Jewish state that was designed to help defend the Jewish people from destruction, while supposedly commemorating the Holocaust, is a world forum for hypocrisy and double standards. It must clean up its own act to make its annual Holocaust commemoration truly meaningful..."