At March of the Living, ex-chief rabbi condemns ‘madness’ of anti-Semitism

Former Israeli chief rabbi Israel Meir Lau addresses the March of the Living commemorating Nazi Germany’s murder of 6 million Jews, which this year comes amid rising anti-Semitism.

Lau, a Holocaust survivor who has taken part in the event each year since it began in 1988, says Jews in Europe were told ahead of the Holocaust to leave there and return to their home, only to continue to be demonized once they arrived in Israel.

“You hated us here because we are strange. You fight us there because we are home. So decide, what do you want from us? We are human beings,” he says.

Lau calls anti-Semitism “a madness that doesn’t have any logic” and says to cure it “you need a psychologist.”

Noting the deadly shooting at a San Diego-area synagogue last weekend, Lau asks the attacker, “What did we do to you?”