This week we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes by Black September terrorists at the Munich Olympic Games. All these years later, the memories of those events are still haunting, coming as they did at the world’s most prestigious sporting event and in the very country where, in 1936, the Nazi ideology of Adolf Hitler received the legitimacy of the world in hosting the Berlin Olympics. For the Jewish people, this horrendous event not only conjured up the terrible past of antisemitism and exclusion — it also forced reflection on how little the world had...