WASHINGTON: Joe Biden on Monday promised he won’t stay silent within the face of rising anti-Semitism in america, because the president hosted a White House reception celebrating Hanukkah, the Jewish pageant of lights.
“I acknowledge your concern, your harm, your fear that this vile and venom is changing into too regular,” Biden mentioned as he stood subsequent to a menorah, a conventional Jewish candelabra, lit by friends to mark the second of the pageant’s eight nights.
“Silence is complicity,” mentioned the president. “We should not stay silent… I cannot be silent. America won’t be silent.”
Among the many friends have been Holocaust survivor Bronia Brandman, and Charlie Cytron-Walker, the rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel, a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas that was the scene of a hostage-taking in January.
In keeping with the Anti-Defamation League, america skilled a document 2,717 anti-Semitic acts equivalent to assaults, verbal assaults and property injury in 2021, a year-on-year improve of 34 %.
In its personal report, the American Jewish Committee, one of many nation’s oldest Jewish advocacy organizations, mentioned that 39 % of US Jews acknowledged they’d “modified their habits, limiting their actions and concealing their Jewishness because of issues about anti-Semitism,” whereas about one in 4 had themselves been a sufferer of anti-Semitism over the previous 12 months.
Consultants have voiced concern they’re witnessing a trivialization of anti-Jewish rhetoric, highlighted by public figures together with the rapper Kanye West, who just lately blurted out “I like Hitler” throughout a web based interview with a conspiracy theorist.
For his half, former president Donald Trump sparked a wave of concern for eating with a identified white supremacist and Holocaust denier final month at his Mar-a-Lago house in Florida.
“I acknowledge your concern, your harm, your fear that this vile and venom is changing into too regular,” Biden mentioned as he stood subsequent to a menorah, a conventional Jewish candelabra, lit by friends to mark the second of the pageant’s eight nights.
“Silence is complicity,” mentioned the president. “We should not stay silent… I cannot be silent. America won’t be silent.”
Among the many friends have been Holocaust survivor Bronia Brandman, and Charlie Cytron-Walker, the rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel, a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas that was the scene of a hostage-taking in January.
In keeping with the Anti-Defamation League, america skilled a document 2,717 anti-Semitic acts equivalent to assaults, verbal assaults and property injury in 2021, a year-on-year improve of 34 %.
In its personal report, the American Jewish Committee, one of many nation’s oldest Jewish advocacy organizations, mentioned that 39 % of US Jews acknowledged they’d “modified their habits, limiting their actions and concealing their Jewishness because of issues about anti-Semitism,” whereas about one in 4 had themselves been a sufferer of anti-Semitism over the previous 12 months.
Consultants have voiced concern they’re witnessing a trivialization of anti-Jewish rhetoric, highlighted by public figures together with the rapper Kanye West, who just lately blurted out “I like Hitler” throughout a web based interview with a conspiracy theorist.
For his half, former president Donald Trump sparked a wave of concern for eating with a identified white supremacist and Holocaust denier final month at his Mar-a-Lago house in Florida.
