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Dear Attorney General Garland and FBI Director Wray:
We write to alert you to the dangerous targeting and promoting of violence against American Jews and Jewish schools, charitable organizations and other institutions being carried out: (i) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by a Boston-area BDS group calling itself the “Mapping Project,” and (ii) throughout the United States by other anti-Jewish hate groups and their leaders.
At this time when antisemitism is alarmingly surging in the United States, these antisemitic groups and their leaders are brazenly and openly mapping lists of Jews and Jewish institutions, and promoting and inciting violence against them. Jewish Americans are at serious risk of grave harm. We urge you to immediately investigate and monitor all these antisemitic hate groups and their leaders, and to prosecute them consistent with the evidence and the law. These anti-Jewish hate groups and their leaders need to be stopped. Law enforcement needs to ensure that Jews and Jewish institutions in the Boston area and around the United States are safe and fully protected. Details about these anti-Jewish hate groups and their leaders are provided below.
The ”Mapping Project” is Targeting and Inciting Hatred and Violence Against Jews
The “Mapping Project” recently released a report alleging sinister connections between Jewish groups and the government, politicians, law enforcement, universities and the media; and blaming a long list of Jewish organizations, foundations, schools and individuals[1] for nefarious activities, including “racism,” “U.S. imperialism,” “colonialization” and “ethnic cleansing.” Alarmingly, the “Mapping Project” plotted the locations of Jewish organizations on an interactive state map, [2] and released addresses and names of some groups’ staffers. The Mapping Project report also falsely defined “Zionism” as “a form of white supremacy” to engender hatred against Jews; and condemned “normalization” (treating Jews as normal people).
In a “dispatch” published on June 3, 2022, the Mapping Project’s organizers made their destructive aims clear, stating: “Our goal in pursuing this collective mapping was to reveal the local entities and networks that enact devastation, so we can dismantle them. Every entity has an address, every network can be disrupted.”[3] The Mapping Project also explained: “We have shown physical addresses, named officers and leaders, and mapped connections. These entities exist in the physical world and can be disrupted in the physical world. We hope people will use our map to help figure out how to push back effectively.”[4]
The Mapping Project poses a severe danger to the safety of American Jews. Congressman Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) described the Mapping Project as “chilling” and “sinister,” and stated that it plays on “millennia-old antisemitic tropes about nefarious Jewish wealth, control, conspiracy, media connections and political string-pulling,” and “can incite violence” and “inflame the deranged among us to take the next step from contemplating to acting upon violence.”[5]
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