Biden condemns ‘ferocious surge of antisemitism’ in Holocaust remembrance speech

President Joe Biden speaks at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Annual Days of Remembrance ceremony (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Joe Biden condemned the “ferocious surge of antisemitism in America and around the world” during a ceremony to remember victims of the Holocaust at a time when the Hamas attack on Israel and controversy over the war in Gaza have sparked new waves of violence and hateful rhetoric toward Jews.

Mr Biden said that on October 7, Hamas “brought to life” that hatred with the killing of more than 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians and warned that, already, people are beginning to forget who was responsible.