NEW YORK — In an atrium in the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan stands a display holding the Book of Names, a haunting reminder about the past that raises troubling questions about the present. Six feet tall and 26 feet wide, the Book of Names is at once an archive and a work of art, containing the names of 4.8 million of the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
"We see this as an immediate security imperative,","and also as a long-term investment in promoting love, compassion, tolerance and the primacy of human rights."
Emhoff’s trip to Europe was a reminder of how easily hatred metastasizes Antisemitism, in particular, is a classic symptom of social decay. Other varieties of hatred — anti-Blackness, homophobia — are almost certain to follow. So while antisemitism tends to be first, it is rarely last. The trip also came as a new right-wing government came to power in Israel and clashes with Palestinians almost immediately began. The relationship between American Jews and Israel has always been complicated and perhaps never more so than today, as antisemitism rises at the same time that the Palestinian cause becomes ever more prominent in progressive movements around the world.
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