When faced with the scourge of rising anti-Semitism, individuals of every faith and creed must challenge it out of solidarity with the Jewish people, US President Barack Obama said on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday at a ceremony held by the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. “We are all Jews, because anti-Semitism is a distillation, an expression of an evil that runs through so much of human history, and if we do not answer that, we do not answer any other form of evil,” Obama said.
The event, devoted to posthumously honoring non-Jewish Holocaust heroes, the so-called "Righteous Gentiles", represented the first time a sitting American president has spoken at the Israeli Embassy.