{"id":10654,"date":"2025-04-16T19:17:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T19:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishpublicaffairs.org\/?p=10654"},"modified":"2025-04-16T19:17:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T19:17:38","slug":"jcpa-condemns-antisemitic-firebombing-of-governor-shapiros-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishpublicaffairs.org\/press-release\/jcpa-condemns-antisemitic-firebombing-of-governor-shapiros-home\/","title":{"rendered":"JCPA Condemns Antisemitic Firebombing of Governor Shapiro\u2019s Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In response to reports that the arsonist who firebombed Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro\u2019s residence was motivated in part by his views about the Governor\u2019s support for Israel, Jewish Council for Public Affairs\u2019 CEO Amy Spitalnick released the following statement:\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMake no mistake: firebombing a Jewish elected official\u2019s home on the first night of Passover because of his support for Israel is antisemitism. Period.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis deeply dangerous attack is the sad but inevitable result of broader antisemitic efforts to target Jewish Americans in the name of supporting Palestinian rights \u2013 including deliberate efforts targeted at Governor Shapiro over the past year. It is also part of a broader pattern of increasingly normalized hate and political violence directed at public officials and institutions, driven by conspiracy theories and anti-democratic extremism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEven as we\u2019ve awaited more details on motive, this attack exacerbated already-significant fears in the Jewish community at a time of rising antisemitism \u2013 including the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in U.S. history in Pittsburgh. The images of the room in which, just hours before, the Shapiro family hosted their seder, and the Haggadahs they used, all now burned and destroyed, elicited visceral feelings for many Jewish Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe are grateful that Governor Shapiro and his family are safe. This attack must be universally and unequivocally condemned.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">###<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to reports that the arsonist who firebombed Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro\u2019s residence was motivated in part by his views about the Governor\u2019s support for Israel, Jewish Council for Public Affairs\u2019 CEO Amy Spitalnick released the following statement:\u00a0 \u201cMake no mistake: firebombing a Jewish elected official\u2019s home on the first night of Passover because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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