LEADER JEFFRIES STATEMENT ON MISSISSIPPI SYNAGOGUE ARSON ATTACK

Today, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries issued the following statement:

I am horrified by the arson attack on the only synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi. Beth Israel Congregation has a distinguished history of fighting for the civil and human rights of all communities, and previously had been targeted in a bombing by the Ku Klux Klan. 

The rise in violent antisemitism targeting our Jewish brothers and sisters throughout the country is unacceptable and shocks the conscience. People of goodwill must come together and do everything possible to eradicate this hateful cancer in America and throughout the world. 

We stand with the Jewish community in Jackson and across the nation during this deeply difficult time, and demand that the perpetrator of this arson be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.