FUTURE OF JEWISH
They remember the Holocaust, but forgot its lesson
Shane Shmuel
August 14, 2026

There are places where history should impose a particular seriousness upon us. Mauthausen is one of them. A concentration camp is not merely a historical attraction. It is a place where human beings were stripped of their names, their dignity and, ultimately, their lives — because they were Jews, political opponents, Roma, prisoners of war, and members of other persecuted groups. To walk through such a place is to confront what happens when hatred becomes ideology and when the humanity of an entire people is treated as expendable. That is why the video gone viral showing students wearing t-shirts emblazoned with the Palestinian flag and the image of a Palestinian terrorist involved in the 1978 Coastal Road massacre in Israel is so morally jarring and repugnant. In that attack, 38 Israelis were killed, including 13 children. It was the deadliest attack on Israelis until the Nova musical festival on October 7th. At the time, it was aimed at undermining the Egyptian peace talks between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. It raises an uncomfortable question: Have we remembered the Holocaust in a way that we have forgotten its moral lessons? READ MORE