Rising antisemitic violence, terror attacks in US spur House Homeland Security Committee hearing

EXCLUSIVE: A GOP lawmaker connected the House’s Homeland Security Committee is spearheading a proceeding connected increasing antisemitic unit successful the U.S. successful effect to caller attacks successful Boulder, Colorado, and Washington, D.C.

These attacks are not outliers, according to the president of the committee’s counterterrorism and quality subcommittee, Rep. August Pfluger of Texas. He has scheduled a proceeding for June 11 to analyse the emergence of anti-Israel violent attacks wrong the American homeland. 

"From harassment of Jewish students and calls to ‘Globalize the Intifada,’ to arson against the Jewish politician of Pennsylvania and the cold-blooded execution of 2 young Israeli Embassy staffers successful our nation’s superior – the heinous onslaught successful Boulder this Sunday is portion of a disturbing pattern, not an isolated incident," Pfluger said successful a Wednesday connection to Fox News Digital. "Antisemitic unit and harassment volition not, and cannot, stay unchecked successful the United States of America – whether it’s connected assemblage campuses oregon successful our communities."

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Rep. August Pfluger is spearheading a proceeding connected increasing antisemitic unit successful the U.S. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"In the aftermath of the overseas argumentation failures and open-border policies of the Biden-Harris administration, the Department of Homeland Security, successful coordination with authorities and section instrumentality enforcement, indispensable beryllium prepared to conscionable the infinitesimal arsenic we look an progressively analyzable menace scenery astatine location and abroad," helium said. "Congress indispensable guarantee the United States remains a bastion of state for all, and that our Jewish neighbors tin unrecorded escaped from hatred and persecution." 

Among those who volition look astatine the proceeding is Kerry Sleeper, the lawman manager for quality and accusation sharing with the Secure Community Network. The radical is the largest Jewish information enactment successful North America. Sleeper oversees its 24/7 operations of the National Jewish Security Operations Command Center, which coordinates quality with agencies specified arsenic the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI. 

Pfluger has antecedently sounded the alarm astir antisemitic unit and different panic threats that jeopardize the information of U.S. citizens. For example, helium reintroduced authorities successful February, known arsenic the Countering Online Radicalization and Terrorism Act, which would necessitate DHS to behaviour assessments each twelvemonth evaluating the menace violent groups similar ISIS and Hamas airs to the U.S. done the usage of overseas cloud-based mobile oregon desktop messaging applications. 

The measurement has received bipartisan support, and Democratic Rep. Jimmy Panetta of California is simply a co-sponsor. 

Pfluger’s proceeding comes not agelong aft a gunman opened occurrence and killed 2 Israeli Embassy employees successful Washington successful May. A pro-Palestinian man, identified arsenic 31-year-old Elias Rodriguez of Chicago, was arrested successful transportation with the case, according to authorities.

SHOOTING AT CAPITAL JEWISH MUSEUM HIGHLIGHTS RISING WAVE OF ANTI-JEWISH HATE CRIMES 

Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, who were changeable and killed arsenic they near an lawsuit astatine the Capital Jewish Museum, successful this handout representation released by Embassy of Israel to the U.S. connected May 22, 2025. (Embassy of Israel to the USA via X/Handout via Reuters)

Likewise, Sunday’s violent onslaught successful Colorado near a twelve radical injured – including a Holocaust subsister – during an lawsuit organized by Run for Their Lives, a grassroots radical that holds events urging the merchandise of Israeli hostages. 

The fishy successful the attack, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, archetypal entered the U.S. nether the Biden medication and had overstayed his visa, aggregate Department of Homeland Security sources archetypal told Fox News. Soliman, 45, allegedly yelled "Free Palestine" and utilized a makeshift flamethrower to behaviour that attack, according to instrumentality enforcement officials.

Lawmakers and quality experts person agelong warned astir overseas terrorists entering the U.S. and conducting attacks against American citizens.

For example, Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, then-chair of the House Permanent Select Committee connected Intelligence, and House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green, R-Tenn., warned of specified panic threats successful August 2024, pursuing the merchandise of a study from House Judiciary Committee Republicans that determined the Biden medication released astir 100 amerciable immigrants connected the violent ticker list.

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Video stills of a antheral throwing an incendiary instrumentality into a radical of pro-Israel supporters successful Boulder, Colorado, Sunday, June 1, 2025. (Alex Osante)

"Since the Biden-Harris Administration’s failed unfastened borderline policies person welcomed imaginable terrorists into our nation, we’re moving to combat these threats and safeguard Americans successful their ain backyards," Turner and Green said successful a associated connection successful August 2024 successful effect to the report.

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The FBI has voiced akin concerns. 

"I person warned for immoderate clip present astir the menace that overseas terrorists whitethorn question to exploit our southwest borderline oregon immoderate different larboard of introduction to beforehand a crippled against Americans," erstwhile FBI Director Christopher Wray told the House Judiciary Committee successful April 2024. "Just past month, for instance, the Bureau and our associated coercion task forces worked with ICE successful aggregate cities crossed the state arsenic respective individuals with suspected planetary violent ties were arrested utilizing ICE’s migration authorities."