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Washington (AFP) – President Joe Biden Friday called on US political leaders to denounce anti-Semitism, days after Donald Trump hosted a well-known Holocaust denier and the rapper Kanye West — whose virulent outbursts culminated this week with praise of Adolf Hitler. Biden’s warning comes at a time of rising concern in the United States over a normalization of anti-Semitic discourse — increasingly co-opted by a white supremacist fringe that was emboldened under the Trump presidency. “I just want to make a few things clear: The Holocaust happened. Hitler was a demonic figure,” Biden tweeted. …