Political Quotes

“in 1945, Muriel Knox Doherty, of the Royal Australian Air Force Nursing Service, was assigned to the Bergen- Belsen Concentration Camp to provide relief for Holocaust survivors. She preserved her experience in hundreds of letters, which contained passages like this: On arrival at Belsen, [the prisoners] lay in the open and were beaten with iron bars. [The] witness' friend was in bed 3 days as a result of these beatings. ``The only reason for this treatment,'' she wrote, ``was that they were Jews.'' ``The only reason for this treatment is that they were Jews.'' Yesterday, Jews around the world observed Yom HaShoah--the Holocaust Remembrance Day. I spoke at Temple Emanu-El in New York about it. This year, Yom HaShoah comes at an especially painful moment for the Jewish people. Seven months ago, over 1,200 innocents were brutally murdered by Hamas in the worst attack against Jews since the Holocaust. In the months since, anti-Semitism has swept our country and the world in ways not seen in generations. Sadly, we see the poison of anti- Semitism amidst some of the protests happening on college campuses today. This unprecedented rise in anti-Semitism is why I came to the Senate floor last November--to speak at length about the fear that has been growing in the hearts and minds of every Jewish person since October 7. I believe we all have an obligation to call out anti-Semitism wherever we see it arise, be it from the right or from the left.…”