At the end of WWII, General Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered his troops to photograph every detail of the Nazi death camps they liberated lest anyone try to deny the atrocities that occurred in them. In the decades that followed, however, many insisted that Hitler’s Final Solution was only a myth.
On October 7, 2023, 3,000 Hamas operatives invaded the Supernova Music Festival and several kibbutzim adjacent to the Gaza Strip in southern Israel, killed 1,200, and kidnapped another 250. To this day, however, many minimize or even deny the occurrence of these atrocities.
This year, Member of Knesset (MK) Mishel Buskila of the New Hope Party moved to extend legislation banning the immigration of people advocating anti-Israel boycotts, Holocaust and October 7 deniers, and those demanding the prosecution of IDF veterans.
The International Criminal Court has charged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, and several active soldiers with war crimes. Nevertheless, MK Buskila’s bill was unanimously passed after its third reading even though the opposition feared it would stifle free speech.
A bill criminalizing Holocaust denial was passed into law in 1986. Last year, it was legislated that being part of any terrorist organization and/or denying October 7 within the State of Israel are crimes punishable by five-year prison terms.
Please pray for the repentance of those who refuse to accept the historical reality of the sufferings of the Jewish people. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ among Jews and Gentiles in the Land of Israel.
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