Why I will not stand for Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day siren

Published 15 Apr 2026 by Richard Kuper

One of the many memorials to victims of the Holocaust in Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris. Image: RK

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Orly Noy looks at what Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day has become.

She says she avoids participating “in one of the endless manifestations of Israel’s militaristic cult of death and bereavement”.

With Israel having made ethnic supremacy official policy, the remembrance siren – when people stand where they are in two-minutes silence – no longer signifies mourning.

Rather, the siren call has become “part of a well-oiled machine that turned the Holocaust into a propaganda tool designed to justify the most despicable of crimes”.

This article was originally published by +972 Magazine in partnership with Local Call on Mon 13 Apr 2026. Read the original here.