“It’s painful, it hurts,” Emhoff said Friday aft helium was asked astir rising antisemitism during an quality astatine the NewDEAL Leaders league of authorities and section officials successful Washington.
Former President Donald Trump precocious hosted Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust-denying achromatic supremacist, astatine Trump’s Mar-a-Lago location successful Florida. The rapper Ye — formerly known arsenic Kanye West — expressed emotion for Adolf Hitler successful an interview. Basketball prima Kyrie Irving appeared to beforehand an antisemitic movie connected societal media. Neo-Nazi trolls are clamoring to instrumentality to Twitter arsenic caller CEO Elon Musk grants “amnesty” to suspended accounts.
Emhoff, successful his effect astatine the conference, said helium did not privation this benignant of sentiment to “feel normal.”
“I don’t privation radical to think, ‘Well, it’s conscionable words,’” helium said. “We person to each measurement up and talk retired astir this arsenic leaders successful your communities. So arsenic agelong arsenic I person this microphone, I’m going to support speaking up, speaking out, and again, not conscionable astir antisemitism but astir hatred and bringing everyone other together.”
“This is not OK. It’s not OK,” Emhoff continued. “We cannot beryllium silent. We gotta propulsion back. We gotta talk up. And we cannot marque this normal. We cannot.”
The White House did not denote connected Monday which Jewish leaders volition enactment successful the roundtable.
White House officials, including elder statesmanlike advisers Susan Rice and Keisha Lance Bottoms, and Deborah Lipstadt, peculiar envoy to show and combat antisemitism, were slated to join.
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