President Reuven Rivlin warns against rising anti-Semitism in Europe, saying political considerations cannot justify forging alliances with far-right political parties that refuse to address their countries’ role in perpetrating the Holocaust.
Speaking at an official ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, Rivlin says Europe is seeing a reemergence of “the ghosts of the past” some 80 years after the Nazi genocide of European Jewry.
“But today, 80 years after the outbreak of the Second World War, we need to look today’s reality straight in the eye,” he says.
“Today, Europe – like other parts of the world – is changing once again. Today, Europe is once again pursued by the ghosts of the past,” Rivlin says in the televised remarks.
“Ideas of superiority, national purity, xenophobia, blatant anti-Semitism from the left and right are hovering over Europe.”
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