Harper calls anti-Semitism a sickness at National Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper called anti-Semitism a sickness that still threatens the world.

His words came, Monday, as he took part in the National Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony.

The Prime Minister spoke out against anti-Semitism as he remembered the victims and survivors of the holocaust.

MP’s from all parties took part in the ceremony held at the War Museum in Ottawa.

Surrounded by tanks and planes from World War 2, Harper said the hatred that started the Holocaust is still present today.

“Anti-Semitism is a sickness, a deadly moral sickness. Anti-Semitism kills the lives and security of its victims, the conscience of its perpetrators, the integrity of those who fail to speak out.”

The Prime Minister made reference to the leaders of Syria and Iran as examples of hate and discrimination.

Harper added that it is not enough to just remember the Holocaust, but we also need to use it as an example of why we need to fight the threats facing our world today.

Guests at the ceremony were given yellow roses to symbolize the yellow stars the Jewish people were made to wear in concentration camps.

Author Amek Adler lived through Auschwitz and said it is difficult to even think of the atrocities he has witnessed

“Life expectancy of a transport arriving to Auschwitz, from the time you disembark to the time you were dead and went to the crematorium – an hour and a half,” said Adler.

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