From Reuters:
“Biden condemns anti-Semitism
after swastika found at State Department”
U.S. President Joe Biden spoke
out against anti-Semitism after officials said that a swastika had been found
carved into the wall of a U.S. State Department elevator. "Let me be
clear: Anti-Semitism has no place in the State Department, in my
administration, or anywhere in the world. It's up to all of us to give hate no
safe harbor and stand up to bigotry wherever we find it," Biden tweeted
late on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, a State Department spokeswoman told
reporters the swastika had been discovered on Monday and that Secretary of
State Antony Blinken had addressed the incident with department staff. read
more The swastika, a symbol of Nazi hate, has been removed and the incident is
under investigation, Blinken said in a statement on Twitter. "As this
painfully reminds us, anti-Semitism isn't a relic of the past. We must be
relentless in standing up and rejecting anti-Semitism," he said, likening
anti-Semitism to other forms of hate including racism, sexism, homophobia and
xenophobia. "None of these ideologies should have a home in our workplace
or our nation." The State Department is working on the nomination of a
special envoy to combat anti-Semitism, spokeswoman Jalina Porter told
reporters.
^ This was a hate crime and
should be treated as such by law enforcement. ^
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