Biden denounces anti­semitism at Holo­caust Memo­r­i­al Muse­um remem­brance speech

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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 …