After forcefully expressing his support for Israel under attack by Hamas, Joe Biden is scheduled to speak at a roundtable with representatives of the Jewish community in the United States on Wednesday, the White House said.
He will tell them of his “unwavering support” for the Jewish state after “the terrorist attacks” by the Palestinian Islamist group and speak of his “fight against anti-Semitism.”
The American president is accompanied by Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, who is Jewish and is intensively involved in exchanges with the Jewish community.
Police forces have “enhanced security measures” around places where the Jewish community gathers in several American cities, the 80-year-old Democrat said on Tuesday.
The Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Police (FBI) “are working closely with local law enforcement and (their) Jewish community partners to detect and prevent any threats (in the United States) following these horrific attacks,” he said .
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U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan indicated that Joe Biden will build his national security team around these questions within the week.
According to him, the White House wants to “ensure that there is no outbreak of a vicious form of anti-Semitism following the Palestinian Islamist group’s unprecedented offensive against Israel.”
Since coming to power in 2021, the American president has launched various awareness campaigns and the fight against anti-Semitism, at a time when the world’s leading power is facing high levels of violence in general and racist and anti-Semitic violence in particular. particularly.
The anti-Semitism organization Anti Defamation League counted a record 2,717 anti-Semitic acts (attacks, verbal attacks, property damage, etc.) in the United States in 2021, an increase of 34% compared to 2020.
For 2022, this association counted 3,697 anti-Semitic acts (+36% over one year), which has not happened since 1979.
The United States has the largest number of Jewish people in the world after Israel. According to the Pew Research Center, there were about 5.8 million Jewish adults in this country in 2020, whether religious or not, plus 2.8 million adults who reported a parent. Jewish.