President Joe Biden used Religious Freedom Day on Jan. 16 to condemn what he called the rise in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia seen across the United States over the past year and declared that hate “has no safe harbor here in America.”
Biden issued the remarks in a proclamation published by the White House on Jan. 15, the same day that Israel and Hamas struck a cease-fire deal following 15 months of war.
The two agreed to use the temporary pause to exchange hostages, with the deal set to take effect on Jan. 19.
Biden praised the United States’ constitutional right to religious freedom, which he credited for making the nation a “beacon of liberty.”…