President Biden denounced the recent rise in antisemitic incidents in a statement on Friday, calling them 'despicable, unconscionable, un-American.'
administration and other world leaders, tensions continued to flare in the United States as competing pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian demonstrations take place. Mosques in the United States have reported damage in recent days as well.
The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights group, said recently that its preliminary research found an increase in online and in-person incidents of antisemitism in the United States as the latest fighting between Israel and Hamas continued. For instance, an analysis of Twitter posts between May 7 and 14 found more than 17,000 tweets that used variations of the phrase"Hitler was right," the group said earlier this month. In addition, the ADL said, it received more than 190 reports of possible antisemitic incidents in the week after the fighting began, up from 131 incidents in the previous week.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Thursday that he had directed the Justice Department to boost funding and other resources to states and localities to combat and investigate hate crimes. He also ordered prosecutors to aggressively pursue both criminal and civil investigations into hate incidents.