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| By: Ryan Jones |
| Published: April 15, 2007 |
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As Israel prepares to mark the Nazi slaughter of six million of their fellow Jews during World War II, many young Israelis say they fear another Holocaust may not be far off.
On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Anti-Defamation League conducted a survey among Israeli Jewish youth, asking them if they felt another act of genocide against their people was possible in today's world.
About one-third of the 500 respondents said they believe another Holocaust is a very real possibility, and six percent said they see a significant chance that it will happen soon.
Apart from Iran - whose present leadership has openly stated its desire to annihilate the Jewish state, and is in a race to develop the weapons needed to do so - most do not recognize other nations today as fertile ground for the birth of another anti-Jewish genocide.
But a new study showed that acts of violence and intimidation against Jews worldwide doubled in 2006 over the previous year.
The countries that experienced the sharpest rise in anti-Semitism were in Europe, home of the first Holocaust, according to the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism. |
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