This action by Germany (“Germany: Jerusalem NOT Israel’s Capital,” April 25, 2018), taken together with the recently enacted new law by Poland’s senate to deny any complicity by Poles in the Holocaust, and the increasing violence against Jews especially in France but also elsewhere in Europe show that “Never Again” lasted barely 73 years in historically anti-Semitic Europe.

This dispels the argument by liberal thinkers that the current generation of Europeans should not be held responsible for the sins of their fathers. Unfortunately, it looks like, after thousands of years, Jew-hatred seems to have become part of their DNA and is being passed from generation to generation. The hoped-for dawning of a new age in Europe’s treatment of Jews will have to wait for some other time.

Max Wisotsky

Highland Park