The president has largely left it to aides to respond to anti-Israel protests at colleges across the country, but he is planning a speech next week at an event sponsored by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

President Joe Biden will deliver a speech next week at the Holocaust memorial ceremony at the U.S. Capitol to address the spike of antisemitism, White House aides confirmed. The speech will represent a rare high-profile foray by the president into an issue that has roiled college campuses and U.

President Joe Biden will deliver the keynote address at an annual ceremony commemorating the Holocaust on May 7, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced on Wednesday.

Amid an unsettling increase in antisemitic incidents across the United States, President Joe Biden is poised to address the nation from a platform that has become symbolically pivotal—the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Annual Days of Remembrance ceremony.