The 2023 film "Irena's Vow" tells the true story of Polish nurse Irena Gut Opdyke, who became the housekeeper for a German army major in World War II. She manages to hide 12 Jews in the Nazi officer's villa to save them from extermination in the death camps.

An innkeeper she meets encourages Irena to keep a low profile to survive. When he realizes she's hiding Jews, he feigns ignorance: "I don't want to know anything."

No one in America or anywhere else in 2024 can say they do not know about the rampant antisemitism percolating in elite American universities, around the globe and at the hands of Hamas terrorists.

But have times really changed? Have we learned anything from history about how antisemitism infects and spreads?

On Saturday, Israel Defense Forces recovered the bodies of six hostages, including Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, an Israeli American, from a tunnel in Gaza, where they had been held captive by Hamas.

Hamas insinuated Monday that the captives were executed because Israeli forces were about to rescue them. The terrorist group also threatened to murder dozens of remaining hostages if Israel attempts to free........

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