On Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray and others will testify before the Senate Homeland Security Committee about domestic threats the country is facing.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gather Saturday in New York as the war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas continues. Federal officials say they are responding to a rise in threats against Arab, Jewish and Muslim communities as the war in Gaza intensifies, coordinating with thousands of police departments across the country to better understand the threats and deploy resources.
For example, Levin said hate crimes against Jewish people in the United States spiked in March 1994, after an Israeli American extremistat a mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron. The hate crimes included a gunman shooting at a van of Jewish students on the Brooklyn Bridge, killing a 16-year-old. “We are seeing a diversity of attacks, which range from noncriminal incidents all the way to threats, assaults, vandalism and bomb threats,” Levin said. “If we continue seeing these horrific images coming out of the Holy Land, we are going to see an even greater spike, not only in hate crimes, but also in much more violent types of plots, if history teaches us anything.
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