(The Guardian) Biden: 'We must give hate no safe harbor'
Joe Biden is condemning the “ferocious surge of antisemitism” during the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Days of Remembrance ceremony.
He’s commemorating the 6 million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis during the Second World War at the event in Washington DC, also attended by congressional leaders, including Republican speaker Mike Johnson and Democratic House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Biden said the Holocaust was “one of the darkest chapters in human history”: Never again, simply translated for me, means never forget.
The president also condemned the Hamas attacks in Israel on 7 October last year, and antisemitism on display during recent pro-Palestinian demonstrations at some US colleges and universities: This ancient hatred of Jews didn’t begin with the Holocaust. It didn’t end with the Holocaust either. Or even after our victory in world war two, this hatred continues. That hatred was brought to life on October 7 2023.
Over 1,200 innocent people, babies, parents, grandparents, slaughtered in their kibbutz, massacred, brutally raped, mutilated and sexually assaulted. Thousands more carrying wounds, bullets and shrapnel from the memory of that terrible day they endured.
We have an obligation to learn the lessons of history … to not surrender our future to the horrors of the past. We must give hate no safe harbor against anyone.
Joe Biden is condemning the “ferocious surge of antisemitism” during the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Days of Remembrance ceremony.
He’s commemorating the 6 million Jewish people murdered by the Nazis during the Second World War at the event in Washington DC, also attended by congressional leaders, including Republican speaker Mike Johnson and Democratic House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Biden said the Holocaust was “one of the darkest chapters in human history”: Never again, simply translated for me, means never forget.
The president also condemned the Hamas attacks in Israel on 7 October last year, and antisemitism on display during recent pro-Palestinian demonstrations at some US colleges and universities: This ancient hatred of Jews didn’t begin with the Holocaust. It didn’t end with the Holocaust either. Or even after our victory in world war two, this hatred continues. That hatred was brought to life on October 7 2023.
Over 1,200 innocent people, babies, parents, grandparents, slaughtered in their kibbutz, massacred, brutally raped, mutilated and sexually assaulted. Thousands more carrying wounds, bullets and shrapnel from the memory of that terrible day they endured.
We have an obligation to learn the lessons of history … to not surrender our future to the horrors of the past. We must give hate no safe harbor against anyone.
