SWC Urges Sessions to Combat Surging Anti-Semitism with Taskforce

Against the backdrop of surging hate crimes targeting Jews and Jewish institutions across the US, the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) is urging US Attorney General Jeff Sessions (pictured), to establish a special taskforce to apprehend the culprit or culprits who have launched four waves of bomb threats against scores of Jewish Community Centers across the US and for President Trump to outline his Administration’s plan to combat surging anti-Semitism.

“The multi-pronged threats of anti-Semitism today demand concerted action. We look to President Trump to take a leadership role in addressing the problem of anti-Semitism and hate in America head-on in a speech at a time and place of his choosing,” said Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper, Dean and Founder and Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish Human Rights NGO.

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Source: The Simon Wiesenthal Center