One of the most powerful photos I've ever seen.
The Commander of Israel’s Masada unit with his grandmother — a Holocaust survivor.
Never again will the Jewish people surrender our fate to others.
For years, the media called Israel paranoid.
But today, UNRWA just quietly fired 70 of its employees in Gaza because they were linked to terror organizations.
Israel was right all along. Why is the world still funding an agency that employs terrorists? It is time to defund UNRWA permanently.
This day (July 1) in 1946, a 9-year-old Polish boy left home without telling his parents — and within days his fabricated story helped spark one of the most savage post-Holocaust pogroms in Europe.
In Kielce, rumors spread that Jews were holding Polish children in a cellar. Police and soldiers disarmed the Jews in the building on Planty Street, then stood by — or joined — as a mob beat, stabbed, and shot them in the streets.
At least 42 Jews were murdered in broad daylight, including women, children, camp survivors, and the local Jewish committee chairman, shot while pleading for help. Wounded victims were robbed even on the way to the hospital.
This was long-standing antisemitism mixed with the widespread belief that “the Jews are finally gone” and their homes and property now belonged to others. Poland had become the world’s largest Jewish graveyard. Similar attacks happened elsewhere.
Across Europe, Holocaust survivors returned only to find themselves homeless and unwanted. Many faced renewed violence or rejection. Hundreds of thousands ended up trapped in miserable Displaced Persons camps, with nowhere to go.
The one place that still wanted them was Mandatory Palestine — yet the British continued blocking Jewish immigration, even for survivors, despite massive international pressure.
One small lie on July 1 helped expose much larger truths: for Europe’s Jews, the nightmare did not end in 1945; and only Jewish sovereignty ensures “never again” is not just a slogan, but a promise.