AJC Condemns Terror Attack on West Bank Synagogue
February 07 2016 - 8:32AM
PR Newswire (US)
NEW YORK, Feb. 7, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AJC
condemned an overnight arson attack on a West Bank synagogue.
"Malicious destruction of Torah scrolls and prayer books is an
outrageous assault on Jews," said AJC CEO David Harris. "That this act of pure hatred
targeted a synagogue erected in memory of the three Israeli
teenagers kidnapped and murdered by Palestinian terrorists in
July 2014 is especially painful."
Haaretz reported that the "perpetrators of the crime organized
the books in a pile inside the synagogue and set them on fire."
"We count on Israeli authorities to pursue the perpetrators and
prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law for this malicious
and bigoted attack," Harris added.
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