What If the Holocaust Never Happened?

What If the Holocaust Never Happened?
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More than 70 years after the Holocaust, the worldwide Jewish population has yet to be fully restored. What could those missing Jews have contributed to the world had the Nazis been defeated earlier?
By: Henry Roth
According to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics, the world’s Jewish population reached 14.5 million at the end of 2017. That is approximately 2 million below the level prior to World War II.

In the aftermath of this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, it is heartbreaking to reflect on our community’s decimation, and how, more than 70 years later, our community has yet to be fully restored. We must pay homage to those we lost, but we should also contemplate what our world would look like had there been no Holocaust.

How large would our families be today? What would those Jews have accomplished given our community’s significant (and disproportionate) contributions to society? Would Israel be far more secure with a Jewish population exponentially higher than it is today ?

According to Prof. Sergio Della Pergola, a preeminent demographer and expert on Jewish population issues, there would now be anywhere from 26 to 32 million Jews worldwide had we not lost the 6 million in World War II.

That would mean 12 to 18 million more Jews with mothers and fathers pushing them to acquire knowledge, to excel, to be productive members of society, to give charity (“tzedakah”), and to live their lives fulfilling the Jewish obligation to “repair the world,” a commandment called “tikun olam.”

There can be no doubt that among those millions would have been individuals who found cures for numerous diseases plaguing mankind, invented and commercialized a wide variety of products and technologies and contributed important works to the arts and literature.

This is not ethnocentric vanity; 22 percent of all Nobel Prize winners have been Jewish. It is not beyond the realm of probability that the Jewish prioritization of education and community improvement would have led to a better, healthier standard of living for all.

We Jews were cheated out of grandparents, parents, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, and not a day should pass without remembrance and melancholy. But the world at large has also paid a monumental price for the lost Jewish generations, something they would be wise to reflect upon before prioritizing short-term interests over the imperative of safeguarding the Jews and their homeland.

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The women who SHAMED Jeremy Corbyn: Female MPs electrify the Commons by describing the shocking abuse they received after exposing Labour anti-Semitism
Luciana Berger, a Jewish Labour MP, said Labour urgently needs to tack action
Labour MP Ruth Smeeth broke down in tears after her colleague's speech
Labour MP John Mann said his wife received a rape threat after he spoke out
Said MPs who campaigned against anti-Semitism targeted by Momentum  
Wes Streeting said Jewish leaders will be 'horrified' by Labour's response today
By Claire Ellicot For The Daily Mail
PUBLISHED: 16:41, 17 April 2018 | UPDATED: 07:30, 18 April 2018
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Two women Labour MPs put Jeremy Corbyn to shame last night as they detailed vile abuse at the hands of his supporters.
On a devastating day for the Labour leader, Jewish MPs Luciana Berger and Ruth Smeeth read out examples of the shocking abuse they have received from activists for highlighting the party's anti-Semitism crisis.
In an emotionally charged debate on anti-Semitism, which shredded Mr Corbyn's remaining authority, MPs on all sides broke with convention to give the pair standing ovations in the Commons. Some MPs were reduced to tears by their harrowing stories.

Fellow MPs were so moved by Ruth Smeeth's speech against anti-Semitism that they defied parliamentary rules to stand up and applaud her words for some time before the Speaker intervened to ask them to sit down (pictured)
Luciana Berger, a Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree (pictured in during the debate) told how she has been inundated with anti--Semitic abuse - and that it is 'on the rise' in the party saying 'it is more conspicuous and it is more abrasive'.

Ian Austin (pictured in Parliament today) said the former London Mayor should be 'booted out' of the party for saying Hitler supported Zionism.

Miss Smeeth said she had received thousands of abusive messages on social media, many of them from people claiming to be supporters of the Labour leader.
One read: 'The first job for Jeremy Corbyn tomorrow: expel the Zionist b**** Ruth Smeeth from the party.' Another said: 'Hang yourself you vile treacherous Zionist Tory filth, you're a cancer of humanity.'

She said: 'I've been the target of abuse from people who say I have no place in the party I have been in for 20 years.'

Miss Berger also said she had received abuse at the hands of people using the hashtag JC4PM (Jeremy Corbyn for prime minister).

She said: 'It is anti-Semitism of the worst kind; suggesting that I'm a traitor to our country, they have called me 'Judas', a 'Zio-Nazi', an 'absolute parasite', telling me to 'get out of this country and to go back to Israel'.

'My party urgently needs to address this issue publicly and consistently. We have a duty to the next generation. Denial is not an option. …The time for action is now. Enough really is enough.'
In an extraordinary demonstration of the growing schism in Labour, the party's deputy leader Tom Watson abandoned his seat on the front bench alongside Mr Corbyn to sit in solidarity with Miss Berger and Miss Smeeth.

The three-hour debate saw a string of Labour MPs stand up to condemn Mr Corbyn's failure to tackle a problem Miss Smeeth said was 'engulfing' sections of the party. Many called for Mr Corbyn's ally Ken Livingstone to be 'booted out' of the party for claiming Hitler was a Zionist.

John Mann, chairman of the all-party group on anti-Semitism, said Jewish people were 'scared' to be in the party and revealed his wife had been sent a dead bird through the post, and that she had been threatened with rape.

'I didn't expect when I took on this voluntary cross-party role for my wife to be sent by a Labour Marxist anti-Semite a dead bird through the post,' he said.
Hundreds gathered at the 'enough is enough' protest called by Jewish leaders outside parliament last month (pictured) - but Labour MPs who attended it were later deluged with hate mail and deselection threats by Corbynistas.

Labour grandee Dame Margaret Hodge said she had 'never felt as nervous and frightened as I do today' about being Jewish. 

Mr Corbyn has come under extreme pressure to tackle anti-Semitism and will meet representatives of Jewish groups next week. A BMG poll for the Independent last night found 61 per cent of people think Labour has an anti-Semitism problem, with more than half saying Mr Corbyn is handling it 'badly'.

The Labour leader did not speak during yesterday's debate. But as Communities Secretary Sajid Javid opened yesterday's debate he could be seen muttering angrily under his breath. Several Labour MPs directly criticised Mr Corbyn's handling of the crisis, with Ian Austin saying he needed to 'take this much more seriously'.

Mr Austin said he was 'deeply ashamed' of the situation. He said Mr Corbyn had a track record of defending anti-Semitic groups like Hamas and had opposed the removal of a 'grotesque' anti-Jewish mural. He urged him to eject Mr Livingstone from the party, saying it was 'a disgrace' the former London mayor had not yet been 'booted out' of the party. Many of the most powerful interventions came from female MPs, some of whom have needed police protection after receiving death threats.

Dame Margaret described how she had seen a battered suitcase with her uncle's initials on it when she visited Auschwitz as she warned against forgetting the lessons of the past. 'Anti-Semitism is making me an outsider in my Labour party. Enough is enough.'

Mr Javid said Mr Corbyn had 'too many accidental associations' with anti-Semitism to list.

He also warned that there has been a spike in 'dinner party anti-Semites' – respectable middle-class professionals who secretly harbour a hatred of Jews. 'We cannot and must not ignore the particular concern with elements within the Labour party,' he said.

Mr Corbyn leader faced criticism after walking out of the debate, missing the speeches by Miss Smeeth and Mr Mann, although he later returned.

Sajid Javid Jeremy Corbyn today accused Jeremy Corbyn of  a 'deeply worrying' failure to tackle anti-Semitism

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