combat antisemitism


President Biden unveiled his administration’s new “whole of society” plan to combat antisemitism Thursday, which he called the “most ambitious and comprehensive US government-led effort to fight antisemitism in American history.

”“The past several years, hate has been given too much oxygen, fueling a rapid rise in antisemitism,” Biden said in a prerecorded message. “It’s simply wrong. It’s not only it’s immoral, it’s unacceptable. It’s on all of us to stop it.

”Biden laid out the four-pronged strategy, starting with an effort to increase awareness and understanding of antisemitism and Jewish American heritage. Domestic policy adviser Susan Rice said the Anti-Defamation League, a civil rights non-governmental organization, found in 2020 that 85% of Americans believe at least one antisemitic trope. 

“A study found that more than three in five American millennials and Generation Z didn’t know that 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust,” Rice continued. “This is simply unacceptable.”She announced the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum would launch the first ever US-based Holocaust education research center and called for increased school-based education about antisemitism.

The plan also calls for improving safety and security for Jewish communities, reversing the normalization of antisemitism and countering antisemitic discrimination.

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