Biden, at Holocaust remembrance ceremony, says hatred against Jews brought to life by Hamas attack

President Biden said Tuesday that the hatred of Jews "continues to prevarication heavy successful the hearts of excessively galore radical successful the world" portion delivering the keynote code astatine the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's yearly Days of Remembrance ceremony.

The president spoke successful Washington, D.C. arsenic anti-Israel protests person been disrupting assemblage campuses astir the country. 

"That hatred is brought to beingness connected October 7th, successful 2023, connected a ineffable Jewish holiday," Biden said. "The violent radical Hamas unleashed the deadliest time of the Jewish radical since the Holocaust."

Prior to Biden's remarks, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said "Today we are witnessing American universities rapidly becoming hostile places for Jewish students and faculty" and that they person "succumbed to an antisemitic virus.

"Students who were known for producing world papers are present known for stabbing their Jewish peers successful the eyes with Palestinian flags. Faculty who erstwhile produced cutting borderline probe are present linking arms with pro-Hamas protesters and calling for a planetary intifada. Administrators who were erstwhile lauded by their peers for enactment are present barring Jewish module and choosing not to support their Jewish students. And these Jewish students are physically threatened erstwhile they locomotion connected field arsenic their peers clasp posters repeating the Nazi propaganda successful the programme The Final Solution," Johnson continued. 

"Now is simply a clip for motivation clarity, and we indispensable enactment an extremity to this madness," helium added. "We recognize that this emergence successful antisemitism comes conscionable aft the worst onslaught connected the Jewish radical since the Holocaust connected October 7th."

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