11 May 2024

Joe Biden warns of 'ferocious surge' of antisemitism in US

Anthony Zurcher & Aleks Phillips

He said too many people had been "denying, downplaying, rationalising the horrors of the Holocaust".

Mr Biden, 81, also condemned those who he said had forgotten the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel.

It was some of his most pointed criticism of Hamas since the attack.

"It was Hamas that brutalised Israelis," Mr Biden said. "It was Hamas that took and continues to hold hostages. I have not forgotten."

The president also criticised what he characterised as lawless behaviour and hateful rhetoric directed at Jewish people by some pro-Palestinian protesters on US university campuses in recent weeks.

He said that "scapegoating and demonising a minority" threatens all minorities.


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