NEW YORK, 26 January, 2021 (TON): Antonio Guterres, U.N. Secretary General encouraged global action to set up an alliance against the alliance against the growth and spread of neo-Nazism, white supremacy and xenophobia revival, anti-Semitism, and hate speech against the pandemic crisis on Monday.

He also emphasized to take international action “to fight propaganda and disinformation.”

And he called to enhance information on Nazi actions during World War II, focusing that almost two-thirds of young Americans do not know that 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust.

He talked at the annual Park East Synagogue and United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Service marking Wednesday’s 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp held virtually.

He said the pandemic “has exacerbated longstanding injustices and divisions”

“Propaganda linking Jews with the pandemic, for example, by accusing them of creating the virus as part of a bid for global domination, would be ridiculous, if it were not so dangerous,” he said. “This is just the latest manifestation of an anti-Semitic trope that dates back to at least the 14th century, when Jews were accused of spreading the bubonic plague.”

The secretary-general said it’s sad but not surprising that the pandemic has triggered another eruption of Holocaust denial, distortion and minimizing history.

“In Europe, the United States and elsewhere, white supremacists are organizing and recruiting across borders, flaunting the symbols and tropes of the Nazis and their murderous ambitious,” he said. “Tragically, after decades in the shadows, neo-Nazis and their ideas are now gaining currency,”

The people have lessened the role of science and fact based analysis for there is a threat that the neo-Nazis have risen across the country and worldwide, he pointed.