Jewish Agency for Israel condemns anti-Semitic attacks in US
The Jewish Agency for Israel has expressed “deep concern” over a recent wave of anti-Semitic attacks against Jewish communities in the US.
"I am deeply concerned by the wave of anti-Semitic attacks and threats that has been sweeping across the United States in recent days and weeks," the agency’s chairman, Natan Sharansky, said in a statement on Wednesday.
"I trust that US authorities will act resolutely to find those responsible, bring them to justice, and prevent such incidents from recurring," Sharansky wrote.
Sharansky, who heads the largest Jewish organization in the world, called the anti-Semitic threats an “ugly phenomena” that “run counter to the foundations of democratic societies in Europe and America."
The warning came following a spate of bomb threats and attacks against Jewish sites across the United States, including the vandalization of hundreds of gravestones at two Jewish cemeteries in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and St Louis, Missouri.
In his first speech to the US Congress on Tuesday, President Donald Trump condemned the anti-Semitic incidents and also spoke out against the apparently racially-motivated killing of an Indian man near Kansas City, Kansas.
"Recent threats targeting Jewish community centers and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries, as well as last week's shooting in Kansas City, remind us that while we may be a nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all its forms," Trump said.
However, the Jewish Agency for Israel was itself involved in supporting Zionist terrorist groups in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The agency supported early Israeli terror groups, including the Irgun, the Lehi and the Haganah, which have carried out numerous violent attacks against Palestinians and Jews, as well as citizens from other countries.
Irgun and Lehi were described as terrorist organizations by the United Nations, American and British governments, and in media such as The New York Times newspaper.
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