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F.B.I. Director Calls Texas Synagogue Attack an Act of Antisemitism - The New York Times
Jan 20, 2022 1 min, 18 secs
Wray said the hostage taker targeted the Jewish community, contrary to the agency’s initial statement.

Wray, the bureau’s director, said on Thursday.

The bureau initially said that the attacker, a British citizen named Malik Faisal Akram, was not driven by antisemitism when he held four people at the synagogue hostage for 11 hours.

Senator Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee, said that the bureau was “failing Jewish Americans.”.

The bureau on Sunday attempted to walk back its initial claim, issuing a statement referring to the event as “a terrorism-related matter, in which the Jewish community was targeted.”.

“We recognize that the Jewish community in particular has suffered violence and faces very real threats from really across the hate spectrum,” he said, mentioning those radicalized by jihadist movements, “domestic violent extremists” and others.

Akram knew that Rabbi Buchdahl played the guitar, Rabbi Cytron-Walker said, and also “thought she was the most influential rabbi.”.

Wray said that lone actors appeared to be making up a bigger proportion of the threats facing Jewish institutions in recent years

The attack on Beth Israel’s Shabbat services last weekend sent chills through Jewish communities and institutions across the country, which have been on high alert since a man shouting antisemitic slurs killed 11 people on a Saturday morning in 2018 at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh

Rabbi Cytron-Walker has said he took part in at least four trainings in recent years — from the Colleyville Police Department; the Secure Community Network, a nonprofit that provides security resources to Jewish institutions; the Anti-Defamation League; and the F.B.I

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