![]() Every one of them is an act of Holocaust remembrance. “CUNY will continue to take actions that confront antisemitism and all forms of religious, ethnic, racial or cultural bigotry. And for many years the Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College has had a significant impact as one of the city’s major centers of education and research about the Holocaust. Over the past year, CUNY and its colleges have instituted measures to address antisemitism, including partnering with Hillel, investing hundreds of thousands of dollars to help our campuses increase their vigilance against all forms of bias and hate, and making it easier for members of our community to report incidents of discrimination and retaliation. “As New York City’s public university system, CUNY has a critical responsibility not only to condemn antisemitism and all forms of hate, but to promote education and understanding that help to confront it. The city is home to many with personal connections to those dark events – Holocaust survivors and their children and grandchildren, as well as generations of family members of those who perished. ![]() “Behind these statistics are people and communities who cannot help but hear the echoes of hate that fed the Holocaust. That’s a 36% increase over the year before and the largest number since the ADL began tracking incidents 44 years ago. Last month, the Anti-Defamation League issued a report that counted more than 3,600 antisemitic incidents in the U.S. “For us in the United States, it is an occasion to focus on the growing antisemitism that plagues our society. Today, nearly eight decades later, Yom HaShoah serves as a necessary reminder of the antisemitism that persists around the world and of the urgency of the global fight against hate in all its forms that must be waged every day. This commemoration has been observed in Israel since 1949, a year after the birth of the Jewish state and four years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps revealed the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust. “The City University of New York joins the international community in marking Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, which began yesterday at sundown.
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