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Biden marks 7 October anniversary with candle-lighting ceremony: ‘A dark day’
President condemns ‘vicious surge in antisemitism in America’ and also references ‘dark day for Palestinian people’
Joe Biden commemorated the anniversary of the 7 October attacks in Israel with a candle-lighting ceremony at the White House on Monday.
The US president was joined by Jill Biden and Rabbi Aaron Alexander, who said a short prayer. Biden did not speak at the ceremony, but he paid tribute earlier in a statement to “the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust” and condemned the “vicious surge in antisemitism in America” since the attacks.
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