The surge in antisemitism worldwide, largely driven by Qatar’s financial backing and amplified on social media, poses a threat reminiscent of a second Holocaust, according to the president of the World Jewish Congress, Israel, who spoke at Auschwitz on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
During a press conference before the annual March of the Living event at the infamous Nazi concentration camp, where over one million Jews perished during World War II, Sylvan Adams shared his concerns.
“I never imagined witnessing what has unfolded since October 7,” stated Adams, whose parents survived the Holocaust, alluding to the 2023 Hamas attacks in southern Israel.
He reflected on the post-Holocaust vow of ‘Never Again,’ admitting, “I was mistaken to believe it would hold true.”
Adams referenced statistics from the Anti-Defamation League in New York, highlighting that 46% of the global adult population—approximately 2.2 billion people—harbor antisemitic beliefs, with 20% unaware of the Holocaust.
He singled out Qatar’s capital, Doha, as a focal point of this troubling trend.
“Qatar, and the Emir of Qatar, while pretending to be a benefactor of the hostages, is playing a double game and fomenting the worst antisemitism since the Holocaust,” he said.
He noted that the Gulf country, which is a US ally, has long funded the Muslim Brotherhood and, over the last three decades, has invested more than a trillion dollars in the pan-Arab Al Jazeera TV station in an effort to destabilize the West.
“Their campaign against the Jews is just the appetizer dish,” he said. “The main course is the entire West that they wish to convert and subjugate.”
In his remarks, Adams also called the Chinese-run TikTok “the most virulently antisemitic of the social-media platforms,” coupled with Beijing’s covert and overt support for the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian regime.
He praised the administration in Washington for forcing the creation of a majority American board for the social platform in the United States, where it has 200 million users.
“What began here did not begin with gas chambers,” Adams said on the site of the ultimate symbol of the horrors of the Holocaust. “It began with words, with permission and with silence.”
