{"id":596793,"date":"2023-01-12T06:15:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T12:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/12\/emhoff-to-visit-poland-and-germany-amid-rising-antisemitism\/"},"modified":"2023-01-12T06:15:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T12:15:32","slug":"emhoff-to-visit-poland-and-germany-amid-rising-antisemitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/12\/emhoff-to-visit-poland-and-germany-amid-rising-antisemitism\/","title":{"rendered":"Emhoff to visit Poland and Germany amid rising antisemitism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, is set to visit Poland and Germany later this month to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day and to hold meetings aimed at combating rising antisemitism in the U.S. and around the world.<\/p>\n

Emhoff, the first Jewish person to be married to one of the top two nationally elected U.S. officials, will visit Krakow, Poland, including a stop at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. He will then travel to Berlin join a meeting of European special envoys and coordinators working to fight antisemitism.<\/p>\n

The Jan. 26-31 trip comes as Emhoff takes on an increasingly vocal role<\/a> in working to address anti-Jewish rhetoric and violence globally. It will serve as one of his most high-profile solo engagements since Harris and President Joe Biden were elected.<\/p>\n

At Auschwitz-Birkenau, Emhoff will participate in a wreath-laying ceremony during the International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration. He will be joined on parts of the trip by Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism. He is also expected to meet with local Jewish communities and civil society leaders and tour local historic and cultural sites.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the trip, Emhoff on Thursday will meet with the Democratic and Republican co-chairs of the House bipartisan task force for combating antisemitism.<\/p>\n

Emhoff\u2019s focus on global antisemitism comes a month after he addressed rising domestic extremism during a roundtable with Jewish leaders at the White House.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand the weight of this responsibility \u2014 I do,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd as second gentleman, let me reiterate, I will not remain silent. I\u2019m proud to be Jewish, and I\u2019m proud to live openly as a Jew. I am not afraid. We cannot live in fear. We refuse to be afraid.\u201d<\/p>\n

In recent months, former President Donald Trump hosted Nick Fuentes<\/a>, a Holocaust-denying white supremacist, at his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida. The rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West<\/a>, expressed love for Adolf Hitler in an interview. Basketball star Kyrie Irving<\/a> appeared to promote an antisemitic film on social media. Neo-Nazi trolls are clamoring to return to Twitter as new CEO Elon Musk grants \u201camnesty\u201d to suspended accounts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Emhoff, a successful entertainment lawyer in California when his wife was elected vice president, has also spoken publicly about his great-grandparents fleeing persecution in what is now Poland for the U.S.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs long as I have this microphone, I am going to speak out against hate, bigotry and lies,\u201d he said. \u201cI am going to speak out against those who praise fascist murderers and idealize extremists. I am going to speak out against Holocaust deniers. I\u2019m going to call those out who won\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Associated Press writer Darlene Superville contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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