Three Days to Honour | CAEF Special Bulletin, April 28, 2025

THEY LIVED THAT WE MAY LIVE, REMEMBER THEIR STORY, AND STOP JEW HATRED

Yom Hashoah is a time to remember, reflect, retell the stories of 6,000,000 innocent Jews whose lives were cut short, brutally, without reason. Hate defined the Nazi movement. Hate defined their every action. There can never be forgiveness for their crimes and let the victims and survivors never be forgotten.

Two survivors of the Nazi horror died this year on Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 24, 2025. Here are their stories in brief in an article published in The Times of Israel--Nechama Grossman died at age 109 and Eve Kugler at age 94.

Today Jew hatred is manifest in new ways, from sources that have inverted reality. Human rights organizations that should be most supportive of Jews, as well as other marginalized, vulnerable or persecuted minorities, have by and large turned their backs on the Jews. They justify it with a paradigm of lies and distortions, the unequivocally balderdash Critical Race Theory, and they ignore history, archaeology, law, and all moral reasoning. CRT and its poisonous offspring, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) policies are the lifeblood of progressive ideology today, which has formed an allyship with Islamists, doctrinaire Jew haters. The Nazi ideology is right at home with this gang.

In Canada and most Western countries, Islamism isn’t yet carrying out a broad murderous jihad, but attacks have happened. Progressives used to speak about peace, justice and equity for all but they now tout peace only for those that attack our democracy, and justice for all but the Jews (and Conservatives), and equity only for those “identity” groups which they choose to raise up to special status.

Yom Hashoah, April 24, 2025 has passed, but the reflection and action must not end at one day.

CAEF urges everyone to take an action every day to combat Jew hatred. Don’t ignore the dangers!

On Yom Hazikaron, Memorial Day, April 30, 2025: we remember the fallen soldiers of the IDF, from every war in Israel since the Independence War. We have added over 845 young men and women to memorialize since October 7th, 2023. Let their memories be for a blessing. Let their stories of valour raise us up.

On Yom Ha’atzmaut: Israel Independence Day, May 1, 2025:  we celebrate the re-constitution of the Jewish sovereign state, Eretz Yisrael. This holiday may be said to commemorate a “miracle” as victory of the Jews was gained after fighting an enemy of superior military might. It is a day for jubilation and joy, for publicly celebrating with song, dance, prayers, food and the singing of Hatikvah. Whatever, the customs of one’s community, it is a day for Jews across the religious and cultural spectrum to join in thanks for the reviving of the Jewish State in our ancient homeland.