{"id":1220715,"date":"2022-01-17T19:07:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T00:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1220715"},"modified":"2022-01-17T19:07:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T00:07:51","slug":"after-denial-fbi-admits-terrorist-targeted-jewish-community-at-synagogue-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-denial-fbi-admits-terrorist-targeted-jewish-community-at-synagogue-service\/","title":{"rendered":"After Denial, FBI Admits Terrorist &#039;Targeted&#039; Jewish Community at Synagogue Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fafter-denial-fbi-admits-terrorist-targeted-jewish-community-at-synagogue-service%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1220715&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/fbi-agent-jacket-computer-stock-gettyimages-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has admitted that&nbsp;Malik Faisal Akram, 44, the terrorist who attacked a synagogue during Sabbath services on Saturday and held four people hostage, \u201ctargeted\u201d the Jewish community.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/16\/fbi-claims-attack-on-synagogue-not-specifically-related-to-jewish-community\/\">reported<\/a>, the FBI appeared to downplay any antisemitic motives, saying it&nbsp;was \u201cnot specifically related to the Jewish community,\u201d perhaps because Akram said he wanted the U.S. to free a convicted terrorist known as \u201cLady Al-Qaeda.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>But after a wave of criticism, including from Jewish groups, the FBI reversed its position. \u201c\u201cThis is a terrorism-related matter, in which the Jewish community was targeted, and is being investigated by the Joint Terrorism Task Force,\u201d it said, according to a report by Fox News\u2019 Jake Gibson.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Newest FBI statement on Colleyville just in \u2013 per Fox\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JakeBGibson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JakeBGibson<\/a>: \u201cThis is a terrorism-related matter, in which the Jewish community was targeted, and is being investigated by the Joint Terrorism Task Force.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shannon Bream (@ShannonBream) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShannonBream\/status\/1482938414022471682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The FBI\u2019s initial reluctance to state what many people felt was obvious drew renewed outrage for a variety of reasons. One is a perception that the federal government is reluctant to identify terrorism as such when a Democrat is in the White House; the 2009 attack on Fort Hood by a radical Islamist, which killed 13 people, was <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Blotter\/members-congress-demand-obama-administration-classify-ft-hood\/story?id=18493746\">called<\/a> \u201cworkplace violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another is that the Department of Justice is currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/11\/us\/politics\/justice-dept-domestic-terrorism.html\">pursuing<\/a> right-wing extremism and recently launched a \u201cdomestic terrorism\u201d unit, though it largely ignored left-wing violence for years. The media, too, has played its part, largely ignoring the racist motivations of a black radical who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/04\/02\/joe-biden-fails-to-condemn-farrakhan-follower-capitol-hill-attack-in-statement\/\">killed<\/a> a Capitol Police officer last year, or the racist and left-wing extremist views of the man who carried out a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/22\/waukesha-suspect-darrell-brooks-jr-rap-songs-ranting-trump-white-supremacy\/\">massacre<\/a> in Waukesha, Wisconsin, at a Christmas parade last year.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the charging of several January 6 rioters with \u201cseditious conspiracy,\u201d while no such charges have been filed against the Black Lives Matter rioters and Antifa activists who attacked federal buildings, local governments, and law enforcement throughout 2020, the FBI\u2019s reluctance to identify extremism from the left or from a perceived minority group has rankled critics.<\/p>\n<p>There was also outrage at the FBI, particularly from the Jewish community, simply due to the fear that the government has not taken the threat of antisemitism seriously enough, even as there have been several attacks on synagogues in recent years.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has admitted that\u00a0Malik Faisal Akram, 44, the terrorist who attacked a synagogue during Sabbath services on Saturday and held four people hostage, \u201ctargeted\u201d the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}