Watch The Daniel Cohen Show on the Real Life Network for Christian news and biblical worldviews on the latest events around the globe. On January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we pause and ask the question the world never wants to answer: how did six million Jews get exterminated, and how do we stop it from happening again? If “never again” means anything, it means we do not look away when evil shows its face. It means we tell the truth, even when it is unpopular. It means we call darkness what it is.

Never Again Is Not a Slogan, It Is a Warning

Eighty-one years ago, Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz. They found survivors who were barely alive, walking skeletons of skin and bone. My grandmother Laura was one of them. She lived. Most did not. Only a tiny fraction walked out of that place.

I have seen the images you have seen: the piles of shoes, the abandoned luggage, the warehouses of hair. Six million Jews were systematically exterminated because they were Jewish. And every year, we say “never again,” as if repeating the words is enough to keep the world from repeating the sin.

But here is the uncomfortable truth. “Never again” is meaningless if we only say it when it is safe.

Look at Iran. I am not equating anything to the Holocaust. The Holocaust stands alone in its scope and horror. But if we are talking about mass slaughter, state violence, public executions, and a regime crushing dissent with bullets and terror, then yes, we are watching something horrifying unfold in real time. Reports from inside Iran suggest tens of thousands may have been killed for demanding freedom. The regime has cut the internet for weeks. Ask yourself why. If everything is “under control,” why hide the evidence?

And where are the loudest voices in the West? Where are the celebrity human rights crusaders? Where is the UN women’s office? Where is the legacy media urgency? If your compassion only activates when it can be used as a cudgel against Israel, then it is not compassion. It is propaganda.

When the world goes silent in the face of evil, evil learns it can keep going.

Iran’s Regime Targets the Body, and the World Pretends Not to See

Let me show you the kind of evil the Islamic Republic specializes in. There is footage and imagery coming out in small trickles, even with the internet severed. There are fathers holding sons whose eyes have been destroyed. Reports indicate security forces were told to aim at demonstrators’ eyes, to blind them and break the rebellion. Think about that. A regime so demonic it treats human sight like a target.

This is what radical Islamist tyranny does. It maims. It tortures. It destroys families. It crushes hope.

Now, add the regional reality. The U.S. has moved serious firepower into the Middle East. Israel is preparing for the possibility of retaliation. Iran vows that if the U.S. strikes, it will unleash its rage on the Jewish state. And of course it will, because the radical Islamist obsession is always the same: destroy Israel, murder Jews, erase the miracle of a nation God has preserved.

Meanwhile, October 7 ignited a wave of global antisemitism that is still spreading. In America, we now see protesters targeting Jews not only in politics, but in culture. People protested a Jerry Seinfeld comedy show in Chicago because he is Jewish and supports Israel’s right to defend itself after being attacked by genocidal terrorists. Read that again and tell me we are not sliding backward into medieval antisemitism.

And then came a moment that was both heartbreaking and deeply symbolic. The last Israeli hostage held in Gaza was finally recovered after 843 days. Not rescued alive. Recovered. Israel can finally say there are no longer hostages in Gaza, dead or alive. Comfort, yes, but bittersweet. Families have been shattered. A nation has carried grief like a weight on its chest.

Never again means we confront antisemitism, Islamism, and moral cowardice before they metastasize.

Minnesota’s Moral Confusion and the Call to Protect the Least of These

Now pivot to Minnesota, because if you want to understand the sickness of our moment, listen to leaders who casually weaponize Holocaust imagery for politics. Governor Tim Walz compared ICE enforcement to the story of Anne Frank. That is grotesque. Anne Frank was not “processed.” She was hunted and murdered for being Jewish. Illegal immigrants who commit crimes are not being hunted for extermination. They are being deported. Words matter. History matters.

And then we get a story so absurd it sounds like satire: a group calling itself a Democratic coalition of Satan worshippers recognized Walz at the state capitol. I cannot believe we are even saying this out loud in America. But it is a sign of the times. Confusion is everywhere, and spiritual darkness loves confusion.

The Bible is clear. We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against spiritual forces of darkness. This is spiritual warfare. That does not mean we become hysterical. It means we become discerning. It means we pray. It means we speak with biblical truth and refuse to let lies set the terms.

That is why I want to end with something constructive and urgent: the protection of children and the defense of the family.

I sat down with Katie Faust, the founder of Them Before Us, and she said something every church needs to hear. The culture keeps trying to redefine family around adult desire. Katie keeps bringing it back to the child. Children have rights. Children are not accessories. Children have a right to be known and loved by their mother and father when possible, and they should never be bought and sold.

She also confronted the growing industry of “big fertility,” IVF, commercial surrogacy, and donor conception, and the ways children can be commodified in the process. You do not have to agree with every policy detail to recognize the core moral question: are we centering the adult, or are we protecting the child?

The church must become a child-protecting, truth-telling force in a culture that treats kids like a product.

If you want the full interview, and more biblical worldview coverage that refuses to bow to the spirit of the age, watch The Daniel Cohen Show on the Real Life Network.

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