sentence in texas. she was convicted over a decade ago on seven charges, including attempted murder and armed assault on u.s. officers in afghanistan. with me now is the ceo and the national director of the anti-deaf mission league jonathan green blat. thank you very much. i m so sorry it is on this news, but thank you for taking the time this evening. i m happy to be here. i wish the circumstance were different as well. there is so mitch we don t know. we don t have the name of the hostage-taker. we don t have the names of those being held or their conditions. we don t have a motive. but one thing is very clear. this is people of the jewish faith once again in america being victimized. what is your response to what is happening right now? yeah, unfortunately, poppy, i feel like we have been here before. this is the first time that anyone at adl can recall a
located in suburban dallas and you know many of the members would have been at home watching this on their laptops, on their computers, even on their phones. that s just a part of the if you kind of way that we re worshiping in this post-covid omicron world again what s scary is the idea someone with weapons of come kind i kind could get no the synagogue and hold the rabbi and these people hostage we have staff on the ground in the command center. we are monitoring this closely. poppy, i will tell you, i got many calls this evening from youish leaders around the country. people are scared. people are very, very terrified. we know the government, the federal government is deploying across the country. in response to this, jonathan green blat, we are hoping for the best. i appreciate you joining me tonight. thank you tore having me. cnn is live on the scene of
large in the minds of extremists. when she was, after she was arrested and she went to court, she insisted there were no jews in her jury poll and used geraint semitic tropes throughout the trial. literally when her verdict was announced and she was con52nd of crimes including shooting u.s. troops in an act of attempted murder, her public exclamation was that this verdict didn t come from america, it came from israeli. so this is a woman who we know and her supporters who we know spout hostile anti-semitic conspiracy theories. again, there is a lot more information to gather about who did this, why they are doing this, but we are very alarmed. jonathan, just let me remind our viewers, people are talking about her. she is serving an 86-year prison