Jerusalem, 28 August 2017<\/p>\n
This visit to Yad Vashem is a tribute to the Jewish people, victims of the most hideous crime against humanity in the history of mankind and a tribute to the courage of the survivors whose testimony we all have the obligation to repeat to make sure that the future generations will never forget the Holocaust.<\/p>\n
I was particularly impressed by the first room. The first room gives clearly the idea that the Holocaust was not a crazy initiative of a group of paranoid Nazis but it was the combination of millennia, of persecution and discrimination of the Jewish people of what we today call antiSemitism.<\/p>\n
Anti-Semitism; my own country also lived it and I would recall the most tragic moment of them all with the expulsion of the Jews in the beginning of the 16th century. I believe that the horror of the Holocaust should be such that anti-Semitism should now be dead forever but, unfortunately, we see it alive and well.<\/p>\n
I was shocked a few [days] ago to listen to the chant of a group of neo Nazis in developed country in the world chanting \u201cblood and soil\u201d- slogan of the Nazis. That is a dramatic demonstration that it is our duty to do everything possible and as Secretary General of the Â鶹APP I fully assume that commitment to do everything possible to fight anti-Semitism in all its expressions. As I said I\u2019m truly committed to fight anti-Semitism, as to fight racism, xenophobia, anti-Muslim hatred and all other forms of bigotry that unfortunately we are not yet able to make our world free of.<\/p>\n
Allow me also to congratulate all those that have conceived, built and work in this remarkable memorial that so strongly impresses us all.<\/p>\n
Thank you very much.<\/p>\n
ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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