US President Joe Biden on Friday denounced the recent rise in "despicable, unconscionable, un-American" antisemitic attacks across the United States.
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"We have seen a brick thrown through window of a Jewish-owned business in Manhattan, a swastika carved into the door of a synagogue in Salt Lake City, families threatened outside a restaurant in Los Angeles, and museums in Florida and Alaska, dedicated to celebrating Jewish life and culture and remembering the Holocaust, vandalized with anti-Jewish messages," the statement read.
All of the incident listed in the statement took place during or after the latest escalation of violence between Israel and Hamas, during which the Gaza Strip-based terrorists of Hamas and the Palestinians Islamic Jihad launched over 4,000 rockets at the Israeli home front.
"I will not allow our fellow Americans to be intimidated or attacked because of who they are or the faith they practice," Biden said.
"May is Jewish American Heritage Month, when we honor Jewish Americans who have inextricably woven their experience and their accomplishments into the fabric of our national identity; overcoming the pain of history, and helping lead our struggle for a more fair, just, and tolerant society," the president added.
Last week, Jewish groups reached out to Biden to ask him to take steps to curb growing antisemitism and antisemitic attacks.
In the letter, the signatories wrote: "We fear that the way the conflict has been used to amplify antisemitic rhetoric, embolden dangerous actors, and attack Jews and Jewish communities will have ramifications far beyond these past two weeks."
They urged Biden "to speak out forcefully against this dangerous trend and stand alongside the Jewish community in the face of this wave of hate before it gets any worse."
Among the signatories to the letter were the Jewish Federation of North America, the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, the Orthodox Union, and the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America.
The letter follows the release of ADL data showing a spike in antisemitic incidents on several social media platforms, including 17,000 tweets saying Nazi leader Adolf "Hitler was right."
Part of this article was first published by i24NEWS.
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