Imploring Americans to fight against all forms of hate, President Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled his administration’s national strategy to combat antisemitism. 

The plan includes more than 100 new actions the federal government will take to increase awareness and understanding of antisemitism, protect Jewish institutions and communities, fight against the normalization of antisemitism and build cross-community solidarity aimed at countering antisemitism. 

It also calls on Congress, state and local governments, private entititles — including tech platforms and pro sports leagues — faith leaders, schools and others to act.

“In the past several years, hate has been given too much oxygen, fueling a record rise in antisemitism,” Biden said in a video recorded before Thursday’s virtual event held on the White House campus. “That's simply wrong. It's immoral. It's unacceptable. It's on all of us … to stop it. 

“We must say clearly and forcefully that antisemitism and all forms of hate and violence have no place in America, and silence — silence — is complicity.”

Biden called the new strategy “the most ambitious and comprehensive U.S. government-led effort to fight antisemitism in American history.”

“It sends a clear and forceful message: In America, evil will not win. Hate will not prevail. The venom and violence of antisemitism will not be the story of our time.”

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, the first Jewish spouse of a vice president or president, said the strategy “will save lives.”

“At its core, antisemitism divides us,” he said Thursday. “It erodes our trust in government institutions and one another. It threatens our democracy while undermining our American values of freedom, community and decency. And antisemitism delivers simplistic, false and dangerous narratives that have led to extremists perpetrating deadly violence against Jews. 

“I know the fear. I know the pain. I know the anger that Jews are living with because of this epidemic of hate.”

Susan Rice, White House domestic policy adviser, who is leaving the administration after Thursday, said her parting request is for Americans to to “do whatever you can in your communities, in your schools, your dorms, your houses of worship, your workplaces, to counter antisemitism and all other forms of hate.”

Among the actions announced Thursday: 

• Next year, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., will launch the first U.S.-based Holocaust education research center.
• The National Endowment for the Humanities, partnering with federal agencies, will expand its investment in kindergarten through 12th-grade education about Jewish history.
• Federal agencies will incorporate information about antisemitism into their training programs. 
• The administration, which already increased funding to improve the security of buildings at Jewish institutions from $180 million two years ago to $305 million today, will ask Congress for an additional $55 million. 
• The administration will work with law enforcement agencies to prioritize the investigation and prosecution of hate-driven crimes.

The plan also calls on tech companies to establish a zero-tolerance policy for hate speech on their platforms and ensure their algorithms do not promote hate speech and extreme content to users. 

The Biden administration’s overall strategy comes amid a rise in attacks against Jews in the U.S. In March, an annual report by the Anti-Defamation League found there were 2,717 incidents targeting Jews in 2022, up 36% from the prior year. The number is the highest since the ADL began tracking antisemitic incidents in 1979, and it’s the third time in the last five years the number reached a new record high.

Antisemitic harassment increased 29%, vandalism was up 51%, and assaults were 26% higher than in 2021, according to the report. There was one death.

Also in March, the FBI released a supplement to its report on 2021 hate crime statistics. The agency found that hate crime incidents increased 11.6% compared to 2020. About 18% of all hate crimes were related to religion, and more than half of those targeted Jews, according to the report.

In a joint statement, more than 30 major American Jewish organizations applauded Biden’s plan.

“In an era of rising antisemitism in the U.S. and around the world, we appreciate the clarity and urgency demonstrated by the White House in releasing its National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, which is a continuation of a longstanding US policy and a critical tool in the fight against anti-Jewish hate and bias,” the groups said. “We look forward to collaborating with the White House and Congress to ensure the implementation of this National Strategy.”