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[ applause ] thank you so much, john. I appreciate that. Thank you for all being here for this important discussion today. I wish this subject did not need to be discussed at all. Discrimination against anyone on the basis of their faith or ethnicity is always wrong. That we have to repeat that briefing today is troubling. It is even more troubling that too many young people perpetrate that kind of discrimination. This a ministration is committed to stopping it. We stand firmly against the alarming rise of antisemitism, and we acknowledge this reality. Jerusalem is israels world capital. [ applause ] when President Trump moved the u. S. Embassy to jerusalem, it was a historic tap step toward peace in the region. And peace in the middle east begins by recognizing israels right to exist. Israel is a light to the region. But we all know it is surrounded by jihadists who embrace evil and who deny israels existence, and violently work to wipe it off the map. I think of my visits to the holy
I appreciate that. Thank you for all being here for this important discussion today. I wish this subject did not need to be discussed at all. Discrimination against anyone on the basis of their faith or ethnicity is always wrong. That we have to repeat that briefing today is troubling. It is even more troubling that too many young people perpetrate that kind of discrimination. This a ministration is committed to stopping it. We stand firmly against the alarming rise of antisemitism, and we acknowledge this reality. Jerusalem is israels world capital. [ applause ] when President Trump moved the u. S. Embassy to jerusalem, it was a historic tap step toward peace in the region. And peace in the middle east begins by recognizing israels right to exist. Israel is a light to the region. But we all know it is surrounded by jihadists who embrace evil and who deny israels existence, and violently work to wipe it off the map. I think of my visits to the holy land. A indelible experiences that ha