‘Antisemites Have Found New Ways Of Attacking Jews’ Declare Leaders At Malmö Forum

‘The Holocaust did not begin with death camps’

Other Jewish speakers included World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder, who in remarks before reporters called out the United Nations for its hypocrisy on Israel.

“What we are looking at today is something we never believed possible after the Holocaust,” said Lauder. “After the Holocaust, no one wanted to be associated with Nazis. Three generations later, most young people have forgotten; what happens now is that anti-Semites have found a new way of attacking” Jews by attacking Israel and saying it should not exist.

“It is on social media, on college campuses, at the United Nations, all over,” he continued. “We are going to fight back hard and go into social media. We have to fight this not only for Jewish people but for all people. There should be no hate.

He also noted that last year, the United Nations instituted “23 resolutions against countries—17 against Israel and six against the rest of the world—that says a lot about what’s happening.”

American Jewish Committee president Harriet Schleifer, whose parents were Holocaust survivors, addressed the conference virtually, saying: “We must be vigilant to the presence of anti-Semitism, however innocuous it may seem and in whatever form it may take. As Holocaust historians remind us, the Holocaust did not begin with death camps; it began with words.”