How many Jews would there be in the world today if Hitler had not destroyed two-thirds of Europe’s Jews?
If not for the Holocaust, there would be as many as 32 million Jews worldwide, instead of the current 13 million, demographer Professor Sergio Della Pergola has written in a soon-to-be published article.
[…] The Holocaust ‘struck a mortal blow particularly at the Jews of Eastern Europe because of their especially young age structure,’ and particularly the number of children. This led to significant long-term demographic damage. The quantitative ramifications are far beyond what we think,” he writes.
[…] Della Pergola says another demographic outcome of the Holocaust is the lower relative number of Jews in the world. “At present, the percentage of Jews in the world is constantly in decline. Before the Holocaust, the rate was eight Jews per thousand people in the world; today it is two per thousand.
Today, on the anniversary of the birthday of the architect of the destruction of Europe’s Jews, the United Nations gathers to see what it can do about making those demographics even worse—by continuing the demonization of Israel, and ignoring the threats to Israel and the world by countries like Iran. Watch for a repeat of Ahmadinejad’s anti-Semitic speech to the UN.