Read the latest by ISGAP Director Dr. Charles Asher Small for the Times of Israel

“‘Never Again’ was supposed to be more than a phrase. Yet on October 7th we were once again faced with Jews hiding in their homes, being burned alive, children killed in front of their parents, parents killed in front of their children. In fact, more Jews were murdered on October 7th than any day since the Holocaust, as well as dozens of Arabs, Thais, Nepalese, and more.

One can’t understand this unimaginable carnage, and the failure of ‘Never Again,’ without considering the role played by antisemitism in Hamas’s murderous ideology. It’s in their charter. It’s in their text books. It’s engrained in their desire to destroy Israel and kill Jews, based on the very same words, lies and ideology that was used to justify the murder of Jews in the Final Solution in Nazi Europe. But while the Nazis tried to hide their Final Solution, Hamas terrorists filmed their barbarism to attract more jihadists to join the struggle to eradicate Jews.

As days ago we again heard calls of “Never Again” from across the world on International Holocaust Memorial Day, we would do well to remember that this year more than ever, we must truly rededicate ourselves to the task of removing the terrible scourge of antisemitism from the world, wherever it may be found.”

Dr. Charles Asher Small is the Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy; and the Director of the ISGAP-Woolf Institute Fellowship Training Programme on Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies, Cambridge, U.K.