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“In an era of heated political rhetoric that has sometimes escalated into violence, we cannot allow public officials to make bomb threats,” said the U.S. attorney for the Central District of California.
The software engineer shouted pro-Palestinian slogans during the CEO’s talk at an annual conference in Seattle.
Elias Rodriguez, 31, told officers on site: “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza. I am unarmed,” the complaint states.
“This attack represents a natural culmination of what we’ve seen over the last 600 days. People who are rationalizing the murder of Jews,” said William Daroff, of the Conference of Presidents.
City officials and faith leaders gathered at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan the day after a gunman killed two employees of the Israeli embassy in Washington.
“This action should not surprise you and is the unfortunate result of Harvard’s failure to comply with simple reporting requirements,” Kristi Noem stated.
“Sadly, someone here listened to the chants of ‘intifada, intifada,’” said the Israeli consul general in New York.
While the gunman came from Chicago, alderman Debra Silverstein said “there is no known threat” to the Jewish community, though security will be increased “out of an abundance of caution.”
The “perpetrators and abettors” of genocide have “forfeited their humanity,” the document states.
The murder “underscores the magnitude of antisemitism,” the senior counsel to the assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights told JNS.
The Orthodox Union applauded the “historic” House passage of a school choice act within tax legislation, while the high court rejected religious charter schools.
The U.S. secretary of state said in testimony on Capitol Hill that American pressure led to Israel lifting the blockade on Gaza aid.
