We Will Not Be Silent: A Moral Outcry Against Silence

This year, tens of thousands of people will participate in March of Life events across 120 cities in 20 countries, raising their voices with a clear message: “We will not be silent!” They march to remember the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust—but not only. They march to speak a difficult truth about our present: antisemitism is not history. It is here. It is growing.

October 7, 2023, was a turning point. The brutal Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians exposed, once again, the face of Jewish hatred—not only in Gaza, but across the world. The horrifying violence was followed by another shock: the silence. In classrooms, churches, university campuses, and the media, too many voices hesitated, avoided, or remained quiet.

How is this possible? How, after such atrocities—when hostages are still held in Gaza under inhumane conditions—does the world fall so quickly into silence?

This silence is not neutral. It is complicity. Because antisemitism does not thrive only on hateful slogans. It feeds on hesitation, minimization, and the silence of the majority.

Today, Jewish communities around the world require police protection. Holocaust survivors wonder if the world has learned anything. And we must ask: what does “Never Again” mean—if again, Jews are afraid to show their identity in public?

The Holocaust did not begin with gas chambers. It began with silence. With mockery. With indifference.

That is why we raise a clear exclamation today:

“We will not be silent!” — this is not a slogan. It is a moral stance.

It is a wake-up call to anyone still hesitating: the time to take a stand is now. Not later. Not quietly.

As the prophet Isaiah declared:

“For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet.”

Neither will we.