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Herzog tells antisemitism confab that 81 years after Holocaust, antisemitism still thrives
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Opening the second annual government-sponsored International Conference on Combating Antisemitism, President Isaac Herzog warns that 81 years after the end of the Holocaust, anti-Jewish hatred still thrives.
“The Holocaust was the single greatest catastrophe in the history of humanity and in the history of our people,” Herzog tells attendees at the conference on International Holocaust Memorial Day. “The same ancient poison… has always carried the same name — antisemitism. Let us call it what it is.”
Among the figures slated to speak are Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama; Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison; former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz; Argentina’s Minister of Justice Mariano Cúneo Libarona; Hungarian Minister for EU Affairs János Bóka; Brazilian senator and presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro; and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee.
The conference is being held some 10 months after a previous one was boycotted by Jewish organizations for including European far-right-wing politicians, many of whose parties have themselves faced accusations of racism and antisemitism.
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