Moss: Will A Holocaust Remembrance Resolution Even Be Introduced Next Year?

(Source: MIRS.news, Published 04/14/2026) Term-limited Sen. Jeremy Moss (D-Bloomfield Twp.) sponsored his last-ever Holocaust Remembrance Day resolution, SR 105, in the Michigan Capitol Tuesday. He said that in today's politics, both parties have an antisemitism problem.

"In past years, we would adopt this resolution and then be joined by Holocaust survivors in the Capitol rotunda, where we would have a program and light candles in memoriam to the 6 million Jews who perished," Moss said on the Senate floor. "We don't have this program anymore because we are losing the direct eyewitnesses to the worst horror in human history."

According to the Claims Conference, which has been negotiating since 1951 to secure material compensation for Holocaust survivors, there are an estimated 31,000 Holocaust survivors still alive and residing throughout the United States as of Jan. 20. The current age range of survivors globally is 79 to more than 100 years old.

Moss, Michigan's only Jewish state senator, has tried using his platform to raise alarm over how today's political rhetoric surrounding the United States' ties to Israel and heated scrutiny against Israeli military actions has led to antisemitic messaging and behavior.

According to Brown University's Watson School of International and Public Affairs, more than 10% of Gaza's population has been directly killed or injured since the Oct. 7, 2023, start of Israel's war in Gaza, after Hamas – the nationalist political group occupying the Gaza Strip since 2007 – attacked Israel during its Simchat Torah religious celebrations.

The New York-based Anti-Defamation League, established in 1913 to combat antisemitism, published preliminary reports showing that from Oct. 7, 2023, to Sept. 24, 2024, more than 8,015 antisemitic incidents of verbal or written harassment took place in the U.S.

It also tracked more than 1,840 vandalism incidents and more than 150 physical assault incidents.

The FBI is reporting as well that a March 12 attack on the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield was a Hezbollah-inspired act of terrorism. The 41-year-old Dearborn Heights resident Ayman Ghazali, who purchased more than $2,200 worth of fireworks that he used to set his truck on fire inside the temple, had searched online for the "largest gathering of Israelis in Michigan."

"Things are much worse today than they were 12 years ago. Images of burning synagogues were once only viewed as black and white photos and film reels from 1930s Germany. In 2026, it's happening in West Bloomfield, Michigan," Moss said. "Those stunning images here at home from just one month ago really should break down that barrier between then and now."

He called out that now there is a debate on the left on whether Ghazali's motive was understandable, as he drove his vehicle into a synagogue with more than 100 youths present inside its childcare center.

"I will leave this Legislature this year, possibly with no Jewish member remaining in this chamber, wondering what the future of Holocaust Remembrance will be in the Senate, or the willingness to combat antisemitism," Moss said. "Will this resolution even be introduced next year?"

Moss is now running in Oakland County's 11th Congressional district, with backing from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Attorney General Dana Nessel. Although the U.S. House district includes progressive hubs that have been critical of Israeli military actions, Moss has benefited from deep-rooted connections with both the district's notable Jewish and LGBTQ populations, as well as $780,834 in donations raised from May through December of last year. In February, he was one of 11 non-incumbent Congressional candidates to be endorsed by the Democratic Majority for Israel's Political Action Committee (PAC).