In the aftermath of the World War II Jewish Holocaust, Zionist groups exhorted the world to “Never Forget” the systematic genocide perpetuated by the Nazis.  Even in the years right after the War, with the Nuremberg trial testimony and pictures of the piles of bodies and the ovens fresh in our minds, there were anti-semitic deniers.  There were even Neo-Nazis marching in the streets in the 1970’s.  The haters have always been among us, but in the past, they were recognized as extremists, and their anti-semitic rantings were uniformly denounced by our public officials.  Today,we are faced with an alarming trend.  In the wake of the fighting in Gaza, fighting which it must be stressed was instigated by Hamas terrorists firing hundreds of rockets into Israeli communities, Leftists in and out of office are blaming Israel for being attacked, and there has been a great increase in violence against Jews.  In searching for a title for this piece, I considered and rejected “the New Antisemitism.”  Sadly there’s nothing new about this ugly conduct, as Jews have been persecuted for all of history.  I was reminded of a song written by 1960’s satirist Tom Lehrer, entitled National Brotherhood Week.  Some of the lyrics are, “the Catholics hate the Protestants, and the Protestants hate the Catholics, and the Hindus hate the Muslims, and everybody hates the Jews.”  He wasn’t wrong.  The roots of antisemitism may be traced to ancient Egypt, where Jews were enslaved.  An Egyptian origin is fitting, as we will see.  Jews were persecuted by the Roman Empire.  Islam appeared in the 7th Century.  In the beginning, relations were cordial.  One of   Mohammad’s wives was Jewish, but things soon deteriorated, leading to Muslim massacres of Jews.  In the 11th Century, there were Muslim pogroms in Spain.  The Catholic rulers Ferdinand and Isabella ran the Muslims out of Spain in the 15th Century, but for the Jews, conditions only got worse, as the Catholic Inquisition expelled, tortured and killed Jews.  Europe, in the Middle Ages was a hotbed of antisemitism, with Jews being persecuted in England and throughout Northern Europe.  There were anti-Jewish Crusades in Europe.  In the 11th Century, one pogrom killed 100,000 Jews in Germany.  Adolph Hitler didn’t invent antisemitism, he turned it into the law.  The Protestant Reformation afforded Jews no respite.  Martin Luther rejected many policies of the Roman Church, but he embraced antisemitism, calling for the permanent oppression and expulsion of Jews, and writing, “we are at fault in not slaying them.”  So much for Christian charity.  The perversions of the Nazis speak for themselves, and here’s where Egypt comes back into  the picture.  In 1928, Egyptian Hassan al-Banna created the Muslim Brotherhood.  Al-Banna was obsessed with the Nazis, and he incorporated into the Muslim Brotherhood an intense hatred of Jews, and a plan to eradicate all Jews in the Middle East.  Sound familiar?  The current Hamas terrorists are an off-shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, and it was these murdering bastards who fired the rockets into Israel.  Naturally, the Israelis couldn’t tolerate the attacks, and the Israeli military carried out raids that have resulted in the killing of hundreds of Islamist terrorists.  By defending itself, Israel came under criticism from Jew-haters throughout the world.  There’s been violence against Jews in Europe.  America is no exception.  In the past two weeks, hundreds of Jews have been attacked in New York City, Los Angeles and south Florida.  Palestinian flag-waving rioters have accosted Jews, or suspected Jews, in the streets.  In California, crowds of men attacked diners asking, “Who’s Jewish?”  In New York, a Jewish man on his way to a pro-Israel rally was beaten and pepper-sprayed by a group of men hurling antisemitic slurs.  In southern Florida, men in an S.U.V. pelted a visiting Jewish family with garbage and shouted: “Free Palestine” and “We’re going to rape your daughter. We’re going to rape your wife.”  A Hasidic man was chased in Los Angeles by a carload of people waving Palestinian flags.  The social media platforms that banned such dangerous radicals as Donald Trump and Mike Lindell, are unconcerned by the daily rantings of “kill the Jews” coming out of Iran, or tens of thousands of antisemitic tweets such as, “have a happy Holocaust,” “Peace be upon Hitler,” and “Hitler was right.” These are shades of 1930’s Germany which should repel any thinking person.  If we had fully operating police forces in our country, the street violence wouldn’t be tolerated, but thanks the blatantly antisemitic Black Lives Matter terrorists, we don’t.  If we had reasonable, sensible elected leaders, such conduct wouldn’t be tolerated.  But we don’t.  We have AOC, decrying Israeli apartheid.  We have Ilhan Omar, saying support for Israel is just about Jewish money.  And we have a corrupt demented imbecile President demanding that the Israelis cease fire.  Fittingly, Prime Minister Netanyahu told Joe to go pound sand, and the Israelis mopped up hundreds of terrorists before a cease fire was agreed to.  That didn’t stop nit wit “celebrities” from denouncing an Israeli “genocide” of Palestinians.  And over what?  Palestinians just want their own State, right?  Wrong!  If that was the case, they’d already have one.  In 1947, UN Resolution 181 called for the creation of a Jewish state and an Arab state in the land which at that point was controlled by the British.  All the Arab countries opposed the resolution, voted against it, and promised to go to war to prevent its implementation.  Why?  They don’t support Palestinians, they just hate Jews.  In 2000, President Clinton hosted peace talks at Camp David between Palestine’s Yasir Arafat and Israel’s Ehud Barak.  The plan proposed a Palestinian State.  Israel agreed.  Arafat refused.  In 2008, the Israelis agreed to cede Israeli territory for the creation of a Palestinian State.  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas turned it down.  They don’t want a State, they want a conflict leading to the killing of all Jews.  And what is the Biden State Department doing about this?  Secretary Blinken has informed Abbas that the U.S. will send an additional $75 million to the Palestinians, a/k/a Hamas.  That’s enough money to pay for more than 93,000 more rockets for the Palestinians to fire into Israel.  Funding terrorists is not a solution.  The truth about our 21st Century Age of instant information is that people today are more ignorant of the past than ever before.  We’d best never forget the horrors of the Holocaust.  If we deny the truth and condone violence as a form of “protest,” we may relive it.