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Blinken focused particularly on Breckinridge Long, an assistant secretary of state overseeing the issuance of visas during WWII, who made it harder for Jews to flee the Nazis and receive refuge in the United States. According to reports documented by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial and Museum, Long intentionally withheld information about the mass killings and lied to Congress about the number of Jewish refugee admittances. He asserted that the State Department was doing everything it could to rescue Jews, when the truth was the opposite. Even worse, Long didn’t hide what he was doing, nor did he act alone. He wrote government cables affirming a policy to “postpone and postpone and postpone the granting of visas” by putting “every obstacle in the way.” Some at the State Department helped Long draft and implement these policies. Others watched silently, their inaction demonstrating tacit acceptance of Long’s willful and inhumane refusal to save lives. ....
The rise in digital manifestations of antisemitism during 2020 detailed in a new report from Tel Aviv University, which. Biden said he had “taken them on separate visits to Dachau, so that they could see for themselves what happened there, and to impress on them the urgency to speak out whenever they witness antisemitism or any form of ethnic and religious hatred, racism, homophobia, or xenophobia.” Biden declared that the “legacy of the Holocaust must always remind us that silence in the face of such bigotry is complicity remembering, as Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote, that there are moments when ‘indifference to evil is worse than evil itself. ” ....