We were still hoping to see red-haired toddlers Kfir and Ariel Bibas return home with their mother, Shiri, when I saw a woman rip their photograph off a wall and shred their tiny faces with her fingernails. At that very moment, in reality, someone was strangling them in Gaza.

In Rome this week, vandals attacked the Beit Michael Synagogue in Monteverde and defiled the memorial plaque of Stefano Gaj Taché, the two-year-old murdered by antisemitic terrorists as he left the synagogue on Oct. 9, 1982. These are not isolated acts. They belong to the same uninterrupted chain of hatred.

During the Holocaust, one and a half million Jewish children were murdered. Among them were my father’s four little sisters and his beloved brother, Moshe. On Oct. 4, 1943, in Poznań, Heinrich Himmler explained t

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