A House of Lords select committee is debating the construction of a large Holocaust memorial with a “learning centre” in a beautiful, popular small park in the shadow of parliament. This is a very controversial scheme, so much so there are even attempts to silence Holocaust survivors who disagree with it. The Holocaust, in which some six million Jews were murdered less than a century ago, must never be forgotten and the disease of antisemitism should be fought everywhere — especially given the tsunami of Jew-hatred and Israel-hatred that has swept the West since the October 7 terrorist attacks.
I have felt this all my life because my father was the chief British prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal. But this project will do nothing to help the battle against antisemitism. It may even harm it.
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