President Joe Biden condemned the “ferocious surge of antisemitism in America and around the world” during a Tuesday ceremony to remember victims of the Holocaust at a time when the Hamas attack on Israel and controversy over the war in Gaza have sparked new waves of violence and hateful rhetoric toward Jews. Biden said the world was at risk of not knowing the truth of the Holocaust, when 6 million Jews were systematically killed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. Biden’s remarks at the Capitol played out as pro-Palestinian protests — some of which have involved antisemitic chants and threats toward Jewish students and supporters of Israel — rock college campuses across the country. It comes as the Democratic president has struggled to balance his support for Israel after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack — the deadliest day for Jews worldwide since the Holocaust — with his efforts to protect civilian life in Gaza. Biden said that on Oct. 7, Hamas brought to life that hatred with the killing of more than 1,200 Israelis, mostly civilians. “Not 75 years later, but just seven and a half months later, and people are already forgetting, they're already forgetting, that Hamas unleashed this terror that it was Hamas that brutalized Israelis, that it was Hamas that took and continues to hold hostages," Biden said. “I have not forgotten, nor have you. And we will not forget." Biden, whose relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has grown strained over his government's push to invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah, said American support for Israel is “iron clad...even when we disagree.” The campus protests have posed a political challenge for Biden, whose coalition has historically relied on younger voters, many of whom are critical of his public support for Israel. Biden said “There’s no place on any campus in America” or any place in America for antisemitism or threats of violence.