Huckabee at Holocaust Remembrance event: Israel is ‘everything we hope the world will be’

In his first public appearance as the new US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee tells attendees at a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony, “I come to bring blessing, and stand with you, because you are everything we hope the world will be.”

Speaking at an event organized by the B’nai B’rith World Center in Jerusalem and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael–Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) honoring Jews who risked their lives to save fellow Jews during the Holocaust, Huckabee says he “believes in the book, and I believe that those who bless Israel will be blessed, and those who curse Israel will be cursed.”

“I do not understand antisemitism or the hatred that history has inflicted upon the Jewish people,” Huckabee says. “The animosity toward them makes no sense; it is irrational, baseless, and directed at those who have done no wrong. The only explanation is that, from the time God chose the Jewish people and this land, they have represented His love for the world and His presence on this planet. Those who hate Him naturally direct their hatred toward those who most clearly represent Him.”