Remember or Learn
Israpundit is leading a blogburst to remember Auschwitz and the anniversary of its liberation. The list of participants is available here. Joseph Alexander Norland has an excellent remembrance available for those seeking to participate, and as you’ll see, he is welcoming your thoughts, essays and posts as well. I didn’t request inclusion, although I should have.
In Pogrom, I noted how the United Nations had commemorated the anniversary in an attempt to deflect criticisms of being anti-Semitic. That, along with the UN’s inability to recognize, prevent or end other genocides, remains a heavy concern and one this space has often been used to discuss. It is a simple gesture hold a ceremony of remembrance; of much greater value though would be to act upon the lessons learned and strive not only in words but also in deed to never forget. Among the nations taking part in the ceremonies today, nearly all have at one time or another ignored the actions of those who have persecuted the Jews, and today most are unfortunately ignoring the persecution of other innocents in Darfur and elsewhere, either at the hand of the government or the heel of the ignorant and bigoted.
We should all be pleased by the progress shown between Israel and the new Palestinian leadership, we should be hopeful and proud of the people of Iraq standing at the ready to vote, and we should demand, at all times, that the world body, if it is to remain such, act with an appropriate and just focus to call evil by its name and to fight it with all available means. Otherwise, we have not yet learned, we only remember.
