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Biden calls for an end to hate "in all forms"
From CNN's Nikki Carvajal
US President Joe Biden speaks at the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner in Washington, DC, on Saturday. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images
US President Joe Biden used his remarks at an LGBTQ rights group dinner in Washington, DC, to denounce antisemitism and Islamophobia amid Israel's war with Hamas.
The president also addressed the situation in Gaza, which he described as a "humanitarian crisis."
Biden called the attacks a reminder that “hate just hides under the rocks until there's a little oxygen blown under," adding that history has taught us repeatedly that "antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia — they're all connected."
"Hate toward one group left unanswered opens the door for more hate, toward more groups, more often, readily," Biden said, adding that "the antidote to hate is love" and "silence is complicity."