‘These declarations and acts were hateful and wrong in the 1930s, and remain so today’

At the event at the Mansion House are Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar and Holocaust survivors, Suzi Diamond and Tomi Reichental. Picture: Marc O’Sullivan

Far-right extremism is threatening to diminish the lessons learned from the Holocaust, with racism and antisemitism on the increase.

The warning was given at a Holocaust Memorial Day in Dublin, where Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said many people in Ireland are rightly concerned about the rise of disinformation, antisemitism, all forms of racism, and the trend toward Holocaust distortion and denial.