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Obama: ‘We are all Jews’

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Published: 30 January 2016

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Obama: ‘We are all Jews’ – Jewish Journal 27.01.16
Addressing the Righteous Among Nations Awards Ceremony of Yad Vashem and the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC, the President said, ‘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.’
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Obama won't let Netanyahu get in way of his commitment to Jews and Israel – Chemi Shalev – Haaretz 28.01.16
The US president's speech at the Holocaust memorial ceremony in D.C. makes claims that he harbours malicious intentions toward Israel and the Jewish people sound even more ridiculous than ever.

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