Hate Crimes
“We have a clear vision of how to succeed, through strategic legal action that imposes real consequences on Jew-hatred,” said Brooke Goldstein, the project’s founder and executive director.
Police didn’t say whether it was investigating the attacks as a hate crime.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has called for a ceasefire, drawing push back from Jewish leaders.
The attorney representing the group said the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks “poured a lot of fuel on an already raging fire.”
There has been a 500% increase in total antisemitic incidents.
The suspect was heard yelling, “Free Palestine” and “Kill Jews, kill Jews.”
A map of the incidents shows clusters in various states and regions.
The 320 anti-Jewish incidents from Oct. 7 to Oct. 16 are up from 47 during the same period in 2022, though these numbers almost certainly undercount anti-Jewish incidents.
“My administration will continue to fight antisemitism and Islamophobia,” said U.S. President Joe Biden.
Hamas used the United Hatzalah doctor as a human shield as they fired at passing cars, killing the occupants inside.
The vehicle’s occupants—a man, his pregnant wife and their 18-month-old baby—emerged from the attack unscathed.
Mahmoud Musa, Mohammed Othman and Mohammed Said Othman will be sentenced later this month for their assault on Joseph Borgen in May 2021.
