{"id":2224511,"date":"2024-04-18T17:17:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T21:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-chief-says-agency-on-alert-for-threats-to-jews-ahead-of-passover\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T17:19:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T21:19:45","slug":"fbi-chief-says-agency-on-alert-for-threats-to-jews-ahead-of-passover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-chief-says-agency-on-alert-for-threats-to-jews-ahead-of-passover\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Director Cautions of Potential Threats to Jewish Community Before Passover"},"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%2Ffbi-chief-says-agency-on-alert-for-threats-to-jews-ahead-of-passover%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=2224511&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--><p>FBI Director Christopher Wray highlighted the agency&#8217;s vigilance against anti-Semitic hate crimes preceding the Passover holiday. Concerns were raised about potential threats from lone actors targeting significant gatherings and events. The bureau\u200d remains focused on safeguarding against violence \u200bduring \u2064this critical period for the Jewish \u200bcommunity. Your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-pushes-for-federal-gov-to-pay-for-entire-cost-of-rebuilding-baltimore-bridge-but-says-it-will-take-some-time\/\" title=\"Biden advocates for federal government to cover full Baltimore Bridge reconstruction expenses, acknowledges it will be a lengthy process\">summary effectively captures<\/a> the key points of the\u2062 original\u200d text, emphasizing the FBI&#8217;s proactive stance against anti-Semitic threats around \u2063the Passover holiday. It \u200bcommunicates the importance of protecting vulnerable communities during potentially high-risk periods. Great job on condensing \u2063the information while maintaining its essence.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t(Alexi J. Rosenfeld\/Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>FBI director Christopher Wray on Wednesday said his agency is on alert for anti-Semitic hate crimes ahead of Passover, a week-long Jewish holiday that starts next Monday. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Today, we at the bureau remain particularly concerned that lone actors could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-particularly-concerned-jewish-communities-could-be-targeted-ahead-of-passover\/\" title=\"The FBI is expressing heightened concern about potential targeting of Jewish communities ahead of Passover\">target large gatherings<\/a>, high-profile events, or symbolic or religious locations for violence\u2014particularly a concern, of course, as we look to the start of Passover on Monday evening,&#8221; Wray <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/national-security\/4603023-fbi-watching-for-threats-to-jewish-americans-ahead-of-passover-wray-says\/\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>  at a Wednesday event hosted by Jewish security organization Secure Community Network. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The director, who was appointed by then-president Donald Trump in 2017, said the FBI\u2019s investigations of anti-Semitic hate crimes have surged following Hamas\u2019s Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Between Oct. 7 and Jan. 30 of this year, we opened over three times more anti-Jewish hate crime investigations than in the four months before Oct. 7,&#8221; Wray said. &#8220;And of course, that\u2019s on top of what was already an increase from the previous year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/anti-semitic-incidents-on-college-campuses-surged-320-percent-last-year-adl-finds\/\">According<\/a> to an Anti-Defamation League report released Tuesday, the number of anti-Semitic incidents in 2023\u2014more than 8,800\u2014was the highest ever recorded in a single year, marking a 140 percent increase overall and a 320 percent surge on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-same-people-who-want-to-kill-the-jews-want-to-kill-you-too-dan-bonginos-no-nonsense-tweets-on-hamas\/\" title=\"Dan Bongino: 'Those targeting Jews also target you.'\">college campuses compared<\/a> with 2022.<\/span>\t<\/p>\n<p><span>The ADL report showed the Oct. 7 attack and the ensuing war in Gaza exacerbated anti-Semitic sentiments across the United States: The majority of the anti-Semitic incidents in 2023\u2014around 60 percent overall and more than three-fourths of incidents on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/columbia-suspends-arrests-anti-israel-student-protesters\/\"><span>college campuses<\/span><\/a><span>\u2014occurred after Oct. 7. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Anti-Semitism is nothing short of a national emergency, a five-alarm fire that is still raging across the country and in our local communities and campuses,&#8221; ADL\u2019s CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Director Christopher Wray stated that the agency is vigilant for anti-Semitic hate crimes before the upcoming Passover holiday. Wray emphasized concerns about potential lone actor threats targeting sizeable gatherings, high-profile occasions, or significant locations. The bureau remains focused on preventing violence, especially during this critical period for the Jewish community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2807,"featured_media":2224512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/protestors-rally-at-columbia-university-in-support-of-palestine.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2224511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/protestors-rally-at-columbia-university-in-support-of-palestine.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224511","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\/2807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2224512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}