President Biden arrives to talk at the annual Days of Remembrance ceremony at the U.S. Capitol on May 7.
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President Biden arrives to talk at the annual Days of Remembrance ceremony at the U.S. Capitol on May 7.
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President Biden condemned antisemitic incidents on school campuses in a speech throughout a solemn occasion at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday: the Days of Remembrance for the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust.
Biden drew a line from the atrocities in the Holocaust to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel, and mentioned what has adopted that day has been despicable.
“We’ve seen a ferocious surge of antisemitism in America and around the world,” Biden mentioned.
He described Jewish college students going through harassment, and posters and slogans “calling for the annihilation of Israel” in addition to efforts by some to disclaim what occurred on Oct. 7.
“We know hate never goes away. It only hides and given a little oxygen, it comes out from under the rocks. We also know what stops hate — one thing — all of us.”
Biden final week delivered temporary remarks denouncing “chaos” on school campuses, saying that issues had gone too far.
On Tuesday, he repeated that individuals are entitled to talk, debate and protest points about which they really feel strongly. “But there is no place on any campus in America — any place in America — for antisemitism or hate speech, or threats of violence or any kind,” he mentioned.
Biden has mentioned antisemitism propelled him to run for president
Biden typically talks about how the 2017 march of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., chanting “Jews will not replace us” performed an enormous function his choice to run for president — although he didn’t recount this story at the bipartisan occasion at the Capitol on Tuesday.
President Biden and House Speaker Mike Johnson maintain photos of Holocaust victims throughout the annual Days of Remembrance ceremony at the U.S. Capitol.
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President Biden and House Speaker Mike Johnson maintain photos of Holocaust victims throughout the annual Days of Remembrance ceremony at the U.S. Capitol.
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The president typically describes his father at the dinner desk educating the household about the horrors of the Holocaust. The lesson: that silence is complicity. Biden took his personal youngsters and grandchildren to the Dachau focus camp in Germany to ensure they realized that very same lesson.
His observe document on the concern makes him uniquely positioned to make the case that Americans want to concentrate to antisemitic incidents, mentioned Sarah Hurwitz, former speech author for Michelle Obama and writer of Here all Along, a book about Judaism.
“I think he perceives something very old and very ugly coming back to haunt us,” Hurwitz mentioned.