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Biden condemns anti-Semitic attacks against American Jews

The United States is facing an uptick on attacks on Jewish people in the wake of the Israel-Gaza conflict.
Joe Biden

US President Joe Biden on Friday thoroughly condemned a spate of recent attacks on Jewish people in the United States since this month’s conflict between Israel and Gaza.

“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,” Biden said in a statement, saying the attacks are “despicable, unconscionable, un-American, and they must stop.”
 
“I will not allow our fellow Americans to be intimidated or attacked because of who they are or the faith they practice,” he said.

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