By JNS – on J-Wire

Israel’s National Holocaust Memorial, Yad Yashem, has expressed “deep concern and dismay” following a recent global spike in anti-Semitic incidents and rhetoric, especially in the US.

Yad Vashem decried the “malicious conspiracy theories that absurdly blame Jews or the Jewish people for the current global health crisis or accuse Jews of deliberately profiting from this situation,” and said they “echo age-old anti-Semitic tropes that have no place in our post-Holocaust civilization.”

“We, at Yad Vashem, believe that these spiteful utterances are symptomatic of the spiritual and moral virus known as anti-Semitism, that has continued to proliferate and infect our societies with hatred,” Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev stated Tuesday, a week after Israel marked its national Holocaust Remembrance Day…

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