Netanyahu sounds alarm on antisemitism at Holocaust Remembrance Day gathering

Leaders from astir the satellite gathered successful Jerusalem connected Tuesday to item the planetary surge successful antisemitism connected International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marked annually connected the day of the 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi extermination camp.

An opening gala was held connected Monday, during which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that the West’s antiauthoritarian civilization is nether menace from a destructive ideology that has infiltrated each state successful Western Europe and the United States.

"They privation to destruct the West arsenic we cognize it. And they hold connected 1 thing. What is the happening that they hold on? World War Jew. To behaviour a satellite war, archetypal against the Jews and against the Jewish state," helium said.

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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu addressed satellite leaders and officials astatine the Second International Conference connected Combating Antisemitism successful Jerusalem, Israel connected Jan 26, 2026. (Haim Zach/GPO)

"And for the extremist Muslims, they are right, due to the fact that determination would beryllium nary West successful the Middle East if the Jewish authorities is eradicated. There would beryllium nary obstacle for the further penetration of Europe if the Jewish authorities doesn't exist. And it besides appeals to their interior hatred of the Jews, which has communal roots with antisemitism implicit the centuries," Netanyahu added.

Among the salient planetary figures attending the league were Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama; erstwhile Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz; erstwhile Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison; Hungarian Minister for European Union Affairs János Bóka and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee.

"Antisemitism is rooted successful a spiritual illness of earthy evil," Huckabee told Fox News Digital. "It’s the bigotry of believing oneself to beryllium superior to another, which is the essence of each forms of irrational hatred and racism. We each should beryllium speaking up and lasting up against it," helium said.

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee speaks to Fox News Digital during an interrogation astatine the American embassy successful Jerusalem, Israel. (Yoav Dudkevitch/ TPS-IL)

"Hating the Jews contiguous is hating Christians time and immoderate different radical the next. It’s a crab that is ne'er satisfied until each steadfast quality narration is destroyed. It originates successful hell. Any and each efforts to place specified acheronian is helpful. Being quiescent astir it is to judge it and hold with it," the ambassador added.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog was the archetypal talker to code the league connected Tuesday, informing of a deteriorating world for Jewish communities worldwide.

"The aforesaid aged plague has been fto escaped connected our nine erstwhile again. The rationale whitethorn beryllium different, but it is the aforesaid past poison, it has taken galore forms, but it has ever carried the aforesaid name, antisemitism," helium said.

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A tribute for Bondi Beach wide shooting victim, 10-year-old Matilda, whose past sanction is being withheld astatine the petition of her family, astatine the Bondi Pavilion successful Sydney, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. (Steve Markham/AP Photo)

Herzog noted that Jews present consciousness compelled to fell their identities connected the streets of London and Paris, and that Jewish worshipers indispensable beryllium protected connected Saturday mornings from Toronto to Boston to Buenos Aires.

He cited the sidesplitting of Jewish worshipers successful Manchester, England, connected Yom Kippur, the execution of innocents astatine a Chanukah solemnisation successful Sydney, Australia and the isolation and harassment of Jewish students connected assemblage campuses crossed the U.S. and Europe.

"When this happens," Herzog said, "we are failing to conscionable our vow. We are failing to conscionable our duties to humanity."

Herzog besides addressed concerns successful the United States, citing New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. "To contradict the Jewish radical and lone the Jewish radical the close to self-determination successful their nationalist homeland is antisemitism - adjacent if you are the politician of the metropolis with the astir Jews extracurricular Israel," helium said.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog gathering leaders astatine the Second International Conference connected Combating Antisemitism successful Jerusalem, Israel connected Jan 27, 2026. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

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The conference, titled Generation Truth and hosted by Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, Amichai Chikli, focused connected 3 superior manifestations of modern antisemitism: convulsive Islamist antisemitism, progressive antisemitism that seeks to delegitimize Israel and exclude Jews from nationalist life, and far-right antisemitism, which has gained renewed visibility successful caller years.

On Tuesday, Chikli drew a transportation betwixt Nazi ideology and what helium described arsenic "Islamo-Nazism," which helium said underpins the worldview of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

"Eighty-one years person passed, and the Jewish radical person inactive not afloat recovered from the horrific run of annihilation carried retired by Nazi Germany. Eighty-one years person passed and yet an axe is inactive raised against america seeking to destruct the tiny Jewish authorities and to harm Jews astatine each constituent connected the globe, from the kibbutzim and communities successful confederate Israel inactive frightened by the barbaric Hamas atrocities of Oct. 7 to Manchester and Sydney," Chikli said.

A constabulary conveyance parked extracurricular the Manchester synagogue, wherever aggregate radical were killed connected Yom Kippur successful what constabulary person declared a violent incident, successful northbound Manchester, Britain, Oct. 5, 2025.  (Hannah McKay/Reuters)

"This league seeks to banish governmental correctness… and to mobilize each indispensable forces successful the ideological and carnal combat against the modern heirs of the Nazi," helium continued.

Also speaking astatine the league was Sylvan Adams, president of the World Jewish Congress for the Israel region, who told Fox News Digital that connected Oct. 8, 2023 — earlier the warfare successful Gaza began and portion Israel was inactive counting its dormant — demonstrations took spot crossed the globe celebrating the Hamas-led massacre.

He blamed the events connected respective countries that helium said are portion of an organized run led by Qatar, which helium said serves arsenic a frontline for the Muslim Brotherhood, with backing from Iran and, much recently, China —actors helium argued exploit Israel and the Jewish radical to intimidate and overturn Western society.

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Memorials astatine the tract of the Oct. 7 Hamas panic onslaught connected the Supernova euphony festival adjacent Kibbutz Re'im, Israel, connected Monday, May 27, 2024. (Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images )

"After Israel appeared wounded and susceptible connected Oct. 7, they activated a massive, long-prepared run — investing immense resources, infiltrating institutions, and planting paid operatives successful Western cities successful an effort to present a last blow. But we spot however profoundly mistaken they were," Adams said.

"We request to propulsion backmost and punctual leaders successful the West, organization leaders arsenic good arsenic governmental leaders, that we are nether attack. Our mode of life, our freedoms are nether attack. It’s not Israel’s fight, this is simply a clash of civilizations, we are warring for each of the West," helium added.