GHRP Contest

 Throughout history,  prejudice and hate have contributed to violence, discrimination and divisiveness. The Holocaust, Nazi Germany’s state-sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews and other groups, is an extreme example of anti-semitism and racism. It occurred because individuals, organizations and governments made choices that not only legalized discrimination, but also allowed mass murders to occur. Violent anti-semitism and hatred did not start with Nazi Germany nor end with its defeat. Reports indicate it is very much on the rise today, both in our country and across the world as witnessed in Israel on October 7th, 2023.

While anti-semitism is a very specific form of hatred that Jewish people have experienced generation after generation, people of all backgrounds and nationalities have been victims of hatred in one form or another.  Perhaps you have read stories about hatred, prejudice or discrimination in a book, magazine or online. You may have seen someone being bullied and did something about it, or maybe did nothing at the time, but in hindsight you wish you had. You may have witnessed derogatory speech directed at a specific group of people or even been the social media victim of prejudice, discrimination, or hatred.