Following the arrest in Israel today of an American-Israeli dual national suspected of perpetrating most of the bomb threats to Jewish community institutions in the U.S. and several other countries, Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04), a long-time leader in the fight against anti-Semitism and Co-Chair of the Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism, issued the following statement:

     “The wave of bomb threats has afflicted Jewish communities for months. I thank the Department of Justice, FBI and law enforcement agencies in Israel and elsewhere for their relentlessness pursuit. If this suspect is guilty, he must be held accountable. Even if there is only one main perpetrator—it remains to be seen whether there are accomplices—who has been responsible for these threatening calls, we must remain vigilant against all threats to Jewish communities, whoever the perpetrators, whatever their motivation.”

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