Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) hasadmitted she is no experton the Middle East. But her false “genocide” claims against Israel — in Germany, of all places — stokes antisemitism at home.
I myself spent two days in Munich this month for a series of private discussions with Jewish, Christian, and Muslim peace-seekers.
The focus was on future plans to expand the Abraham Accords, the landmark peace agreement between Israel and several Arab and Muslim states.
But I could not shake my earliest memories of the city, 47 years ago, in 1979.
It was the Jewish holiday of Purim, which marks the failure — documented in the Bible — of the first genocidal scheme targeting Jews, in ancient Persia.
On that day, I recited the Book of Esther (known to Jews as the Megillah), together with famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. With us was Rabbi Marvin Hier, the founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center at the Jewish Memorial at Dachau, Hitler’s first concentration camp
We had come to lobby West Germany to scrap its statute of limitations on murder, which could have enabled every German mass murderer to return home, free from any future prosecution. (Ultimately, the Bundestag did rescind the law).
Today, Munich still carries the legacy of the Holocaust — and the memory of another mass murder, in 1972, of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. It was a terror attack made worse by the callous indifference of the International Olympic Committee.
Less than a week before my arrival this month, the magnificent Ohel Jakob Synagogue in Munich had received a rifle cartridge with a live bullet in it, along with threats of violence against the Jewish community.
I made it my business to attend morning services inside that beautiful synagogue, joining some 30 local men in communal prayer.
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