PM at Shoah ceremony: Europeans joining Islamists in inciting against Jews

Netanyahu at Yad Vashem also used his speech to strike out at Islamist extremists and Europeans for continuing to incite against Jews and question Israel’s right to exist, which he says is tantamount to anti-Semitism.

“Slander comes before destruction. Today millions in the Muslim world read and hear threatening lies about the Jewish people. They say Jews are the descendants of monkeys and pigs, they say Jews drink the blood of their enemies,” he says, adding that Hitler and Goebbels would not have been surprised by the comments on social media.

“This incitement comes from Islamic extremism and the Arab world. But in the last years it has been joined by incitement no less destructive from the Western world. British parliamentarians, Swedish officials and French thought leaders.”

“If over the years, anti-Semites portrayed Jews as enemies of humanity, today they portray the Jewish state as the enemy of humanity. There is no end to these lies,” he adds.