US President Joe Biden marks six years since a deadly synagogue attack in Pittsburgh by lamenting an “appalling surge” of antisemitism over the past year.
In 2018, a right-wing extremist killed 11 Jewish worshipers at a synagogue in the former Pennsylvania steel hub in America’s deadliest antisemitic attack. This year’s commemoration falls on the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Hamas attack on October 7 last year that sparked the war in Gaza.
“One year later, the trauma and losses from that day and its aftermath are not only raw, but exacerbated by the appalling surge of antisemitism against Jews in America and around the world,” says Biden in a statement.
Biden says he had launched, before October 7, the country’s first National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism.
“We are aggressively implementing it,” he says, adding that his administration had secured $1.2 billion to provide physical security of synagogues, Jewish schools and other nonprofit organizations. The Department of Justice is also probing and prosecuting antisemitic hate crimes, he adds.
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