Important Visit
Today I was eating lunch with my family and my parents were talking about the Pope visiting a Holocaust survivor. I went online after I finished eating to read more about the visit. Typically the Pope rarely leaves the Vatican, let alone conducts private visits to citizens in Italy. He visited Holocaust survivor Edith Bruck in her home in Italy and the two of them spoke for an hour. Bruck had the courage to tell the Pope her story about being in multiple concentration camps and spoke about the importance of education pertaining to the Holocaust so it never happens again.
According to the Vatican, the main reason why the Pope decided to visit Mrs. Bruck was because of the rising Anti-Semitism happening around the world. When I scroll through Instagram, organizations like Stand With Us and Stop Antisemitism continuously post Anti-Semitic acts happening around the world in order to bring to light that hate against the jews has not gone away.
This is exactly why this visit was so monumental. The Jews are only a small portion of the global population. Therefore we need as much support as possible from other cultural and religious groups in order to combat this rising white supremacy and extremism from Anti Semites. The Pope and Catholic church demonstrated through this visit that they are allies with the Jews and that is such an important message as we all need to unite to create a more peaceful world.
Do you think Anti-Semitism will ever go away?
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/pope-francis-visits-holocaust-survivor-in-rome-659644
I do not think anti-semitism will ever go away. There will always be people that hate us. Hopefully it will diminsh, but unfortunately it will never be eradicated.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that Anti-Semetism will go away. It is too engraved in people's minds that they will never think that it is wrong. It is the sad truth, but we can only hope to do what we can to minimize it.
ReplyDeleteI'm very impressed that the Pope went out of his way to stand against anti-semitism. Unfortunately, I don't think anti-semitism will ever go away, especially with the rise in misinformation that spreads like wildfire across social media. But, if more people follow the Pope's lead, it would definitely help.
ReplyDeleteI think it's really great that the Pope chose to visit the woman and acknowledge the anti-Semitism present currently, however, I heavily doubt anti-semitism is ever going to end, at least within our lifetime. Like Yakov said, people can do their best to lead others and spread information to educate and combat anti-Semitism, but at the end of the day, there will always unfortunately be hate in the world, and that includes against Jews who are such a small minority globally. Hopefully one day people can see that injustice against anyone is wrong, Jewish people included.
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