Biden Condemns Mounting Anti-Semitism in Holocaust Remembrance Speech

‘It’s absolutely despicable and it must stop,’ the president said.

President Joe Biden speaks at the annual Days of Remembrance ceremony for Holocaust survivors at the U.S. Capitol on May 7, 2024. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden declared on May 7 that hatred of Jews “continues to lie deep in the hearts of too many people” and urged all Americans to support his administration in its battle against “a ferocious surge of anti-Semitism in America and around the world.”

Speaking at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Remembrance Day event, President Biden said: “This ancient hatred of Jews didn’t begin with the Holocaust. It didn’t end with the Holocaust either.”