Israeli President Herzog highlights antisemitism in UN speech as new report shows shocking trend
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Israel's President Isaac Herzog addressed the U.N. on Monday at its annual Holocaust Remembrance Day event. His speech comes as a new report shows a worrying rise in antisemitic attitudes globally.
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Speaking to a packed General Assembly Hall, he asked, "How is it possible that international institutions, established as an anti-Nazi alliance, allow murderous antisemitic views to flourish unhindered, in the shadow of the greatest massacre of Jews since World War II? How is it possible that those institutions that were established in the wake of the greatest genocide in history – the Holocaust – distort the definition of ‘genocide’ in favor of one and only goal: attacking the State of Israel and the Jewish people; while embracing the despicable phenomenon of ‘reversing the Holocaust.’"