President Joe Biden strongly denounced antisemitism during a speech at the Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Days of Remembrance ceremony at the Capitol.
“We know hate never goes away,” Biden said. “It only hides. And given little oxygen, it comes out from under the rocks. We also know what stops hate. One thing: all of us.”
Biden uttered the terms “antisemitism” or “antisemitic” half a dozen times, while avoiding the word “Islamophobia,” which he had used in the past, leading some Republicans to accuse him of equivocation.
The president specifically mentioned the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, calling it the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust and lamenting that people had already forgo …