24 May, 2006
The US secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, has said that anti-Semitism is a 'current event'. Rice spoke on Monday at the swearing-in of her senior anti-Semitism adviser, Gregg Rickman. “More than six decades after the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is not just an historical fact,” Rice said. “It is a current event. Anti-Semitic hate crimes are on the rise still at home and abroad. And governments must take decisive action against the perpetrators of those crimes and new generations have to be inoculated against the dangerous bigotry that is instilled often through education in intolerance.” Rickman will coordinate US policy on addressing anti-Semitism around the world. The new post was created following legislation sponsored by Congressman Tom Lantos and Senator George Voinovich.
