Even Now, Jewish Children Are Targets

Yael Eckstein  |  April 24, 2025

Writing at JNS, Yael shares how the world forgot the meaning of “Never Again” after October 7. But she’s hopeful that thanks to the state of Israel and the millions of Christians who stand with Israel, we can – and we will – share the responsibility of “Never Again!”

I believed the world had changed—that after the Holocaust, antisemitism had become morally indefensible. I believed that institutions, governments and civil society had internalized history’s lessons and that the success and integration of Jews in democratic societies, alongside decades of interfaith dialogue and Holocaust education, had created a genuine shift. The State of Israel—strong, sovereign, open to the world—seemed proof that we had entered a different chapter.

But then came Oct. 7, and I woke up to the fact that I was very wrong.

Antisemitism is not a relic of the past. It didn’t die with the liberation of the camps or the creation of Israel. It has simply learned how to survive. It adapts to its surroundings, shifts its language, moves from theology to ideology, from race theory to political cause. It doesn’t disappear. It mutates. And always, at its core, remains the same impulse: to cast the Jew as the problem…

But not everyone turned away. For the first time in history, the Jewish people were not abandoned entirely. On Oct. 7, as the world regressed into hatred, the Christian community stepped forward—a global movement of more than 700 million evangelical Christians, many of whom raised their voices with clarity and conviction.