President Biden says he has 'not forgotten' Hamas atrocities, condemns US antisemitism

US President Joe Biden speaks at the annual Days of Remembrance ceremony for Holocaust survivors at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on May 7, 2024. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

President Biden on Tuesday said he has not forgotten about the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists against Israel on Oct. 7 and condemned antisemitic protests on college campuses. 

In remarks at a Holocaust remembrance ceremony, Biden recounted the rapes, tortures and murders committed by Hamas and lamented that some people appear to have already forgotten Hamas' crimes seven short months after the attack. 

"I have not forgotten, nor have you," Biden told his audience. "And we will not forget. And as Jews around the world still cope with the atrocities and trauma of that day and it's aftermath, we've seen a ferocious surge of antisemitism in America and around the world."  

Biden said too many people have denied, downplayed rationalized and ignored the horrors of the Holocaust., as well as Oct. 7, "including Hamas' appalling use of sexual violence to torture and terrorized youth."