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Acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns, co-director of the documentary The US and the Holocaust, said, “the idea that our leaders, our Congress, the State Department, and more importantly for me, the American people” were unaware of the Holocaust, “is just not true.” UNIFEED

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, “at its essence, Holocaust remembrance is a call to be on constant alert. Never to be silent in the face of hate. Never tolerant of intolerance. Never indifferent to the suffering of others.” UNIFEED

In his message to a virtual United Nations Holocaust Memorial Ceremony marking the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, Secretary-General António Guterres said “what we see today must worry us – and jolt us into action.” UNIFEED

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the 20th anniversary of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action “offers an important opportunity to reflect on where we stand and where we need to go,” adding that “structural racism and systematic injustice still deny people their fundamental human rights.” UNIFEED

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland said the recent events have “made clear once again the costs of perpetual conflict and lost hope” adding that the international community's approach to Gaza and the conflict as a whole “cannot be business as usual, and we cannot afford to repeat the mistakes of the past.” UNIFEED

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland said the successful completion of inclusive Palestinian elections is a “critical step toward renewing democratic legitimacy of the Palestinian Government,” adding that the path forward “will not be easy and will require political courage from all sides.” UNIFEED

Human Rights spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said, Wednesday’s attack on the US Capitol, “demonstrated clearly the destructive impact of sustained, deliberate distortion of facts, and incitement to violence and hatred by political leaders.” UNTV CH

At a high-level video conference on the role of religious leaders in addressing the challenges of COVID-19, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, “As the virus wreaks havoc and disruption on a scale not seen in generations, we see a dawning awareness that the differences that so often divide us pale in significance.” UNIFEED

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said COVID-19 does not distinguish between people, “yet the pandemic continues to unleash a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering.” UNIFEED

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov told the Security Council that the “dangerous prospect of annexation by Israel of parts of the occupied West Bank is a growing threat.” He also said that the past month has seen inspiring examples of cooperation across conflict lines in the common battle against the virus. UNIFEED