Jonathan Greenblatt on Colorado Fire Attack on Marchers: This Is Really a Terrible Time

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GREENBLATT: "Yeah. I mean, this is really a very, very terrible time. I mean, I think first I'll just say that our hearts go out to these victims. I think their status is still unclear, although it was said at the top by the correspondent it appears that this man is being charged with murder. We know that eight elderly people were affected by this attack. And look, this happens in an environment where we're seeing incitement against Jewish people, against Zionists in the United States and really around the world. Over the last few days, we had vandalism against synagogues and a kosher restaurant in Paris. We had Jewish youth attacked in London. We had public graffiti calling to kill Jews in Brisbane, Australia. And then, of course, as you said, 12 days ago, the murder of two people coming out of the Capitol Jewish Museum. By the way, it's 45 days since Governor Shapiro's mansion, the governor's mansion in Harrisburg, was firebombed. And in all these cases, the assailants, the would-be killers, have said things like, free Palestine."