WORLD REMEMBERS VICTIMS OF HOLOCAUST

World Remembers Victims of Holocaust
At former Nazi death camps and many other places worldwide - in Europe, Israel, the U.S. and the UN - people remembered victims of the Holocaust on Jan. 27, declared by the UN in 2005 to be International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (VOA News)

Holocaust Inversion - Manfred Gerstenfeld
63 years after the liberation of Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945, one of the most perfidious forms of contemporary anti-Semitism is Holocaust inversion - the portrayal of Israelis and Jews as modern-day Nazis. The charge is that Israel supposedly behaves toward the Palestinians as Germany did to the Jews in World War II. Portraying Jews as Nazis, Israeli prime ministers as Hitler, and the Star of David as equal to the swastika is almost routine in the Arab world. In the Netherlands you can buy T-shirts and greeting cards showing Anne Frank wearing a kaffiyeh. In other words, the Palestinians are the new Jews, which makes the Israelis the new Nazis.

Holocaust Memorial Day should not only be a day of commemoration. Its meaning is undone when at the same time new versions of the old anti-Semitic demonizations are gaining ground. The writer is chairman of the board of fellows of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. (Wall Street Journal)