The President and the Prime Minister of Israel spoke out about contemporary anti-Semitism at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial centre as Israel began marking Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The ceremony was the beginning of the annual 24-hour period that honours the six million Jews murdered in death camps across Europe under Nazi Germany – considered the most solemn day of the year in Israel.
“Ideas of superiority, national purity, xenophobia, blatant anti-Semitism from left and right are hovering over Europe,” President Reuven Rivlin said.
“We are not on the brink of a second Holocaust or anything like it,” Rivlin said.
“But we cannot ignore the old-new anti-Semitism.”
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