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Biden condemns antisemitism, affirms support for Israel in Holocaust remembrance speech

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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President Biden marked the 75th anniversary of the Holocaust, remembering the six million Jewish people who were killed. In his speech Tuesday, Biden affirmed America's support for Jewish people, Israel and condemned antisemitism. Laura Barrón-López reports. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

President Joe Biden marked the 75th anniversary of the Holocaust today, remembering the 6 million Jewish people who were killed.

0:08.0

In his speech, Biden affirmed America's support for Jewish people and for Israel and condemned anti-Semitism.

0:17.0

We've seen a ferocious surge of anti-Semitism in America and around the world.

0:22.1

On college campuses Jewish students locked, harassed,

0:26.7

attacked by walking to class. Anisemitism, anti-Semitic posters, slogans calling for the annihilation of Israel, the world's

0:39.9

only Jewish state.

0:44.0

Too many people denying, downplaying, rationalizing, ignoring the horrors of the Holocaust.

0:52.0

And October 7th... the Holocaust

0:57.2

correspondent Laura Burone Lopez joins me now.

1:00.3

So Laura tell us why did President Biden decide to deliver this speech now?

1:04.6

The White House sources that I talked to today told me that the President views the increase

1:08.2

in anti-Semitism and hate speech as something that is at crisis levels right now.

1:13.0

This is a wider Tranomna that started well before the Hamas attack on October 7th.

1:18.0

And for the president, this is ultimately a continuation of why he ran in 2020 when he saw neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, chanting,

1:25.0

quote Jews will not replace us.

1:27.0

And so this is something that he wanted to confront head on.

1:31.0

We know you were at the President's campaign

1:32.8

headquarters today talking to your sources. He's spoken about the ongoing

1:36.3

protest against the Warren Kaza in his speech condemning all of the hate

1:40.2

speech but saying Americans have a right to protest. How is the campaign viewing

1:43.9

this moment politically right now?

1:45.7

The campaign really stresses that the president's policy is not driven by the politics of the

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