Rozalie Jerome - President, Holocaust Remembrance Association Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Seven, twenty three is our time here in Houston's Born News.
We are joined by Rosalie Jerome, president of the Holocaust
Remembrance Association, and Rosalie, just another tragedy that you would
like to you would hope to think could have been
avoided with better planning or better monitoring, or for whatever
reason we want to come up with. But I think
what Tom Homan the Borders Are had to say yesterday

(00:22):
was rather startling, and quite frankly, it is quite quite
likely the truth, which is this is the tip of
the iceberg. We have a lot of unvetted people in
this country who mean harm to Jewish citizens and are
not afraid to carry out attacks. How does the local
community reacting to this? Are we concerned here in Houston
about potential soft targets?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Of course we're concerned. The Jewish community is very, very
upset worldwide and especially in America. You know, I'm not
only the founder and president of Holocaust Members Association, but
I'm also the descendant of Holocaust survivors, and most of
my relatives were turned in by their neighbors. I'm talking

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about the rest of my family were burned in the
ashes of Auschwitz and in October seventh. In twenty twenty three,
I was in Israel with my daughter and grandchildren running
from rockets, and I saw the fear in their eyes.
We experienced firsthand the terror that day, and unfortunately the
silence of many in the world that followed it, and

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the loud anti Jewish, anti Israel rhetoric that has exploded
on our campuses and worldwide. And what happened in Boulder
where a coward used a flamethrower of all things, considering
Holocaust means burnt offering, I mean the fires of the
crematoria to attack elderly Jewish people walking in prayer, one

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of them even a Holocaust survivor. This is not a
random I act. It's part of a growing violent pattern
of hate. And yes, there's sleeper cells all over our
city and all over our country. You're talking about this
refugee or this immigrant situation. You know. I have a
friend who's Egyptian, and she told me that there are

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signs in Egypt that's on the stores, some of the
stores that say no dogs and no Jews allowed, you know.
Following the murders in d C, pro Palestinian social media
accounts celebrated for years. Some of these groups have called
for a global intifada, and this is the result. And
we say again, this is not activism, it's hate, and

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the West has to wake up before it's too late.
And the Holocaust Remembrance Association strongly condemned, and of course
everyone in most of the Jewish community worldwide and especially
in our country, this rise in anti We condemned the
rise in anti Semitism and anti Israel rhetoric across the
Western world, and are especially disturbed by the, of course,

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the violent rhetoric and celebratory social media posts following the
murder of innocent people.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
I don't know about you, but I find particularly horrifying
the inability of some people, mainly on the progressive left,
to call this what it was, a terrorist attack. They
didn't want to use the word what else would you
use to describe it?

Speaker 2 (03:15):
I mean, it took the FBI to finally say it,
and even to use the man's first name, sorry to say,
you know. Over nine three hundred anti Semitic incidents were
reported in twenty twenty four in the US, the highest
ever recorded. This is post October seventh. In fact, right
after October seventh, anti Semitic incidents in our country surged

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three hundred and sixty one percent. This is ADL research
and you know at the Holocaust Remembered Association, and I
want to give hope somewhere too. You know, we is
to remember, reconcile and take a stand against anti Semitism.
We have a Holocaust Garden of Hope here. It's free
for the public, for our community to become too. It's

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on Lake on Lake Easton. We're still focusing. We're still
raising funds to build the rest of the garden, but
there's plenty to see right now in King's Harbor. We
also have marches of remembrments on the Texas Director where
we bring peaceful walks publicly standing against anything anti Israel

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and making a clear statement for the Jewish State for
Israel on our campuses. We've done it at Rice, We've
done it at Texas, A and M, Galveston and A
and M. We are hopefully maybe doing it at Rice
this year January or April, so which we're part of
a larger group of Nazi descendants. I'm a Texas Director
and we're just in Peru. There was yesterday.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Rosalie We're way over on time, but I want to
give you a chance to put your website out there
for people who would like to find out more.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
I'm sorry, Yeah, Holocaust Members Association. Our website is h
R one eight dot org.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Rosalie, thank you for your time to day. Sure to
appreciate it. Rosie Jerome, President of the Holocaust Remembrance Association,
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