At a Holocaust Remembrance Day gathering in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other international figures warned of a global rise in antisemitism and urged stronger action. Speakers highlighted violent attacks in Manchester and Sydney, harassment of Jewish students and worshippers, and described coordinated efforts to delegitimize Israel. The Generation Truth conference focused on Islamist, progressive and far-right antisemitism and called on Western leaders to mobilize against these threats.
Netanyahu Warns Of Global Surge In Antisemitism At Jerusalem Holocaust Remembrance Event
A police vehicle parked outside the Manchester synagogue, where multiple people were killed on Yom Kippur in what police have declared a terrorist incident, in north Manchester, Britain, Oct. 5, 2025.(Reuters)
World leaders convened in Jerusalem on International Holocaust Remembrance Day to sound the alarm about a reported global rise in antisemitism. The event, held on the anniversary of the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, brought together political figures, diplomats and Jewish community leaders to discuss threats facing Jews and the State of Israel.
An opening gala featured remarks from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who warned that a destructive ideology has spread across parts of Western Europe and the United States and that it poses a broader threat to democratic societies.
"They want to destroy the West as we know it. And they agree on one thing. What is the thing that they agree on? World War Jew. To conduct a world war, first against the Jews and against the Jewish state," Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu argued that some extremist currents — including radical Islamist groups — view the eradication of the Jewish state as a strategic step that would remove an obstacle to further incursions in the region and beyond. He said this objective taps into a long history of antisemitic hatred.
Notable attendees included Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Hungarian EU Minister János Bóka and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee.
Memorials at the site of the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack on the Supernova music festival near Kibbutz Re'im, Israel, on Monday, May 27, 2024.
"Antisemitism is rooted in a spiritual disease of raw evil," Ambassador Huckabee told Fox News Digital. "We all should be speaking up and standing up against it. Being quiet about it is to accept it and agree with it."
Israeli President Isaac Herzog opened the conference by warning that Jewish communities worldwide face deteriorating conditions. He described an atmosphere in which many Jews feel compelled to hide their identity on streets in London and Paris and called for increased protection of worshippers from Toronto to Buenos Aires.
Herzog cited recent violent attacks and persistent harassment as evidence of the danger: the killing of Jewish worshippers in Manchester on Yom Kippur, the murders at a Chanukah celebration in Sydney, and the growing isolation and intimidation of Jewish students on university campuses across the U.S. and Europe.
"When this happens, we are failing to meet our vow. We are failing to meet our duties to humanity," Herzog said.
The conference, titled Generation Truth and hosted by Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Amichai Chikli, focused on three primary manifestations of modern antisemitism: violent Islamist antisemitism, progressive delegitimization of Israel and exclusion of Jews from public life, and a resurgent far-right antisemitism.
Chikli drew a connection between Nazi ideology and what he called "Islamo-Nazism," saying that modern extremist groups share violent goals with historical antisemitism. "Eighty-one years have passed and yet an axe is still raised against us," he said, referencing ongoing threats to Jewish communities and Israel.
Sylvan Adams, president of the World Jewish Congress for the Israel region, told Fox News Digital that coordinated demonstrations around Oct. 8, 2023, appeared to celebrate the Hamas-led massacre and reflected a broader, organized campaign. Adams accused certain states and actors of enabling or amplifying anti-Israel sentiment and said Western institutions should be alerted to what he described as a strategic effort to exploit Israel's vulnerabilities.
Organizers urged Western political and institutional leaders to recognize the threat and to mobilize resources — ideological and practical — to protect Jewish communities and defend democratic values. The conference closed with a call to action to counter antisemitism across all its forms and to protect pluralistic societies.
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