Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke out against antisemitism at Sunday night’s National Menorah lighting.
“Together, we must stand up against the disturbing rise in antisemitism. And together, we must stand up against bigotry in any of its forms. Our democracy depends on it,” Garland said at the lighting on the first night of Hanukkah. “As a descendant of those who fled persecution because they were Jewish, it is especially meaningful to be here tonight as we light this menorah in our nation’s capital and under the protection of its laws,” he continued.
Former President Donald Trump hosted a dinner in late November with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West. The rapper has since made a series of increasingly more extreme antisemitic remarks, and at one point, praised Hitler. While some Republican lawmakers made condemned Trump’s meeting with the two men, many were reluctant to go so far as to cast blame on the ex-president, including House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy.
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