January 28, 2024
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Biden pledges to stand up to antisemitism

Biden said that since the Hamas attack on Israel, there has been an “alarming rise of despicable antisemitism”…reports Asian Lite News

US President Joe Biden has pledged to stand up to antisemitism and made a promise of “Never Again” while remembering all that Jewish survivors of the Holocaust experienced, The Hill reported.

The US President on Saturday released a statement commemorating the International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), as the war between Israel and Hamas wages on.

Biden said the United States joins nations around the world to pause and mourn “one of the darkest chapters in human history,” grieve the lives taken by Nazis and honour the survivors and those who risked their lives for the innocent.

“This year, the charge to remember the Holocaust, the evil of the Nazis, and the scourge of antisemitism is more pressing than ever,” Biden said, denouncing the “pure, unadulterated evil” that Hamas unleashed on Israel in its October 7 attack that killed 1,200, as per The Hill.

He said: “It was the worst atrocity committed against the Jewish people in a single day since the Holocaust.”

Biden said that since the Hamas attack on Israel, there has been an “alarming rise of despicable antisemitism” both in the United States and around the world that has “surfaced painful scars” of Jewish people.

“We cannot remember all that Jewish survivors of the Holocaust experienced and then stand silently by when Jews are attacked and targeted again today,” Biden said in the statement.

“Without equivocation or exception, we must also forcefully push back against attempts to ignore, deny, distort, and revise history. This includes Holocaust denialism and efforts to minimise the horrors that Hamas perpetrated on October 7, especially its appalling and unforgivable use of rape and sexual violence to terrorise victims.”

Biden pledged to stand up to antisemitism and to make a promise of “Never Again.” He said his father instilled the promise in him as a child, and it is a lesson he has passed down to his children and grandchildren. It’s also a message he said he has “strived to honor” during his visits to Israel and meetings with Holocaust survivors and family members of people taken hostage by Hamas, as per The Hill.

“On this sombre International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we hold the Jewish community and the people of Israel close in our hearts,” Biden said. “And we remember the enduring strength, spirit, and resilience of the Jewish people–even in the darkest of times.” (ANI)

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