Trump denounces anti-Semitism on Israel Holocaust day

TIL Desk/World/New York/ President Donald Trump vowed to wipe out anti-Semitism in a message to mark Israel’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Day after his administration was criticised for past statements about the genocide.

In a four-minute taped video played to the World Jewish Congress in New York, the US leader called the Holocaust “the darkest chapter of human history” and pledged “never again” would such horror occur.

“Six million Jews, two-thirds of the Jews in Europe, murdered by the Nazi genocide. They were murdered by an evil that words cannot describe, and that the human heart cannot bear,” he said. The Republican commander-in-chief went on to pay tribute to Israel and Jewish perseverance, condemning anti-Semitism.

“We must stamp out prejudice and anti-Semitism everywhere it is found. We must defeat terrorism, and we must not ignore the threats of a regime that talks openly of Israel’s destruction,” he said. “We cannot let that ever even be thought of,” he said, adding “America stands strong with the State of Israel.”