FBI Director Christopher Wray said Tuesday that antisemitism is reaching "historic levels" in the United States.
"This is a threat that is reaching, in some way, sort of historic levels," Wray said during a Senate hearing Tuesday. The FBI director said that was in part because "the Jewish community is targeted by terrorists really across the spectrum" including homegrown violent extremists, foreign terrorist organizations, and domestic violent extremists.
"In fact, our statistics would indicate that for a group that represents only about 2.4% of the American public, they account for something like 60% of all religious-based hate crimes," Wray said of the Jewish American population.
Wray said that the FBI is tackling the rise in antisemitism through a series of law enforcement efforts including joint terrorism task forces, hate crime investigations, and intelligence sharing.
"This is not a time for panic, but it is a time for vigilance," Wray said addressing public fear over the rise in hate crimes. "We shouldn't stop conducting our daily lives -- going to schools, houses of worship, and so forth -- but we should be vigilant."
"You often hear the expression if you see something, say something -- that's never been more true than now," Wray said. "And that's probably partly why the American people are reporting more tips and leads to us, and we're pursuing those threats and leads as vigorously and responsibly as we can.
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The FBiI director said Jews make up 2.4 percent of the population.
Chuds, don't you do it.
Don't you dare post the other statistics, you anti-semetic jealous bigots
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Despite being 12% of the population, black people commit 50% of making me smile
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It's hysterical to see leftists turn on the jews after they pearlclutched about nazis for years
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V I S I O N A R Y
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Since it is somehow always “on the rise” and apparently never declines I guess they have to say “historic levels” now.
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Not for long
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For real though: nakba all the American Jews, replace them with all the palestoids and everyone's happy: Jews have a greater Israel with no sandrowdies, america experiences net emigration and the Arabs get to live in a more prosperous area. Make it happen Biden!
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I can't believe anti-Semitism is on the rise even after all the efforts taken by politicians, influential people, and the media to prevent it. Jewish billionaires went so far as to properly warn anti-Semites like those Harvard students that their actions have consequences, that they'll be blacklisted from finance for speaking out against Israel. It's simply unbelievable, nobody could have predicted this
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Snapshots:
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that antisemitism is reaching "historic levels":
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