Biden promises to combat the “ferocious” rise of anti-Semitism

Washington. The president of the United States, Joe Biden, promised this Tuesday to combat the “ferocious” rise of anti-Semitism, in a speech for Remembrance Day, at a time of tensions in Israel’s war in Gaza and pro-Palestinian demonstrations at universities Americans.

Biden, who has supported Israel since the beginning of the conflict, lamented that too many people seem to have forgotten that it was the Islamist movement Hamas that “detonated this terror” with the attack it launched against Israel on October 7.

“I have not forgotten it, nor have you. We will not forget it,” Biden said at the ceremony organized on Capitol Hill by the Holocaust Museum.

“We have seen a fierce rise in anti-Semitism in the United States and around the world,” said the president, who also referred to university campuses in the United States, the scene for weeks of pro-Palestinian protests often broken up by riot police.

“There is no place at any university in the United States, anywhere in the United States, for anti-Semitism or hate speech or violence of any kind,” he emphasized.

Jewish students reported a rise in anti-Semitism since the Israel-Hamas conflict began.

But protesters deny being anti-Semitic and instead criticize that little attention is paid to the alleged harassment of Muslim and Palestinian students.

Biden has been criticized by both Republicans and Democrats for remaining silent on the protests for many days.

His speech comes just as Israel has taken control of a key crossing in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, despite warnings from Washington, and amid difficult negotiations for a truce in the conflict and release of hostages held. of Hamas.