Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday evening addressed the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Conference, chaired by Israel, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem. In his comments, Netanyahu debunked a number of false accusations that have been leveled at Israel during the war in Gaza, among other things.

Netanyahu told the conference that Israel has been “facing this disease, it’s a virulent disease that’s going on for several millennia. And of course, we paid a horrible price in the journey of our nation for antisemitism. But so have other countries. That is very clear.”

“Well, we have now a surge of antisemitism as we speak,” he added, “and those who expected, after the tremendous antisemitic savagery of Hamas on October 7th, the greatest…the most savage attack on the Jews since the Holocaust, that it would cause a decline of antisemitism, well, people who harbored those hopes have been widely disappointed because what we see is the exact opposite. We see demonstrations, protests, in the capitals of the West and other countries that celebrate, celebrate these murderers, these rapists, these baby burners, these hostage takers. Celebrate.”

“We see not only the burning of Israeli flags, and this is consequential, you see the burning of American flags, British flags, Canadian flags, French flags. That’s not an accident. Because the people who are leading this charge are basically challenging Western civilization or free societies as we understand them. When you celebrate these killers, you’re celebrating the complete breakdown of civilized society as we understand it.”

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