WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday condemned an incident in which a swastika was carved into an elevator wall at the State Department’s main headquarters.
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Blinken said in a message sent to all department employees that the vandalism is a painful reminder that antisemitism remains an issue in the U.S. and around the world and must be combatted relentlessly.
“As this painfully reminds us, antisemitism isn’t a relic of the past,” Blinken said in the message. “It’s still a force in the world, including close to home. And it’s abhorrent. It has no place in the United States, at the State Department, or anywhere else. And we must be relentless in standing up and rejecting it.”
“We also know from our own history and from the histories of other nations that antisemitism often goes hand in hand with racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, and other hatreds,” he said. “None of these ideologies should have a home in our workplace or our nation.”
Blinken said the swastika, which was discovered on Monday, has been removed and the incident is being investigated.
The stepson of a Holocaust survivor who was raised in the Jewish tradition, Blinken has made combatting antisemitism a priority since taking office. Last month in Berlin he and his German counterpart inaugurated a new U.S.-Germany Holocaust Dialogue aimed at ensuring the lessons of the Nazi era are not forgotten.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken emailed all State Department employees today telling them "a swastika was found carved in an elevator at the Harry S Truman building," State's HQ. Here's the full text of that email, obtained by me, below. @Axios first reported on the incident. pic.twitter.com/FORGzn97G3
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) July 27, 2021
Sad incident about finding swastika in gov’t building, yes, but unfortunately, there is so much Jew-hatred on the part of Americans leaning to and belonging to the ‘Right’, including truly patriotic , decent people who are horrified at how the Presidential election was stolen from Pres. Trump, and at the obvious involvement of obviously ‘Jewish’ named characters in this pathetic criminal murderoous tyrannical ‘admiinistration – Schumer, Engel, the moronic head of CDC, Walensky, , and others of this unfortunate club of crooks, who nebich , are somehow connected to the Jewish faith – in the eyes of the non-Jews. Can’t really blame those responsible for putting a swastika on the walls. I would probably do the same if I was in their place. Am disgusted to consider these fake Jews part of klal Yisroel!
The state department is riddled with iranian terror regime supporters who make anti israel policy and we are supoosed to be worried about a swastika that in recent such events were all hoaxes and made by the victims themselves.
No surveilance cameras ?
Sounds like a blatant coverup with all the Jews heads buried in the sand.
How can they not know who did it. Every elevator in a government building is monitored by camera.
This statement is the real problem
1. Homophobia fe
2. if this was another group besides Jews, they would never make links in an official statement