Joe Biden says ‘we must give hate no safe harbor’ in speech condemning antisemitism – as it happened
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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.
Never again, simply translated for me, means never forget.
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.
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