Pro-Hamas Activists Taunt Jews on Holocaust Remembrance Day At Auschwitz

From the Daily Wire and The Telegraph

On Monday, as Jews marked Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, the day commemorating the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust, pro-Hamas activists taunted Jews at the 36^th International March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland.

Participants in the march, who included 56 survivors of the Holocaust, walked the two-mile path from Auschwitz to Birkenau, where one million of the six million murdered Jews were killed. The activists waved Palestinian flags and a banner emblazoned “Stop genocide in Gaza” and shouted “Free, free Palestine” while one yelled, “How dare you disrespect the victims of the Holocaust by cheering, as a new genocide is happening in Gaza. Your mothers are watching you! Show some respect!”

Some protesters wore yellow badges in the shape of stars, which appeared to resemble those that the Nazi authorities forced Jews to wear shortly after the German invasion of Poland in 1939.

In response to the protesters’ chants, participants in the march sang back “Am Yisrael Chai”, a Jewish solidarity anthem, the title of which means “the people of Israel live”.

The remembrance march, called the International March of the Living, is an annual 3km silent walk between the former Auschwitz and Birkenau death camps. The march, now in its 36th year, draws thousands of participants. In response to Monday’s protest, its organisers said: “We marched today to give a voice to the six million victims of the Nazi’s industrial genocide of the Jewish people.

Jules Koifman, a Canadian living in London who attended the march, said: “Pro-Palestinian protesters here at the Yom HaShoah ceremony – it’s really disgusting.

“It really shows that they’re here to continue what Hitler set out to do, that Hamas stands on the shoulders of the Nazi regime. We will never let that happen.”

Alyssa Annis, another march attendee, said: “It was a little bit disturbing, but at the same time it is a sign of hope because as we walked by, we walked by with our flags and in groups of people from all over the world, groups of people of all different religions.

“And so it’s even more proof, not only what they managed to do and they wanted to do here, they didn’t win and we are still here, and that humanity is still in existence.”