(Washington) US President Joe Biden said Monday he was “deeply troubled” by reports of an attempted murder by drowning of a Palestinian-American child in May in Texas.
Local media and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) reported the May 19 arrest of a 42-year-old woman after an attack in the swimming pool of an apartment complex in the suburb of Euless. between Dallas and Fort Worth.
After asking the mother, wearing the hijab, if the 3-year-old girl and a 6-year-old boy in the pool were hers, this woman addressed her with racist insults and tried to drag them into the deep end in the pool. apparent intention to drown them, according to the same sources.
The boy managed to struggle but the little girl had to be rescued by a man called to the rescue by witnesses, local media said.
President Joe Biden said on his official X account “deeply disturbed” by this apparent murder attempt. “No child should ever suffer a violent attack,” he added.
The war in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas is causing strong tensions in the United States, particularly on university campuses, and has led to an increase in anti-Semitic and Islamophobic acts.
In November, a man shot and injured three students of Palestinian origin in Vermont (northeast). And in early October, a six-year-old Muslim boy was stabbed to death near Chicago (north) by a septuagenarian, a crime directly linked to the ongoing war in Gaza according to police.
Altercations around a synagogue in Los Angeles provoke reactions
PHOTO DAVID SWANSON, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Multiple altercations took place on Sunday in front of the Adas Torah synagogue between demonstrators, often wearing keffiyehs, and people displaying Israeli flags.
US President Joe Biden said he was “horrified” on Monday after altercations that occurred on Sunday around a synagogue in Los Angeles, California, in a message published on the social network X.
“Intimidating Jewish practitioners is dangerous, unreasonable, anti-Semitic and un-American,” he wrote.
The 81-year-old Democrat has repeatedly promised to fight anti-Semitism, while the war in Gaza remains an extremely politically sensitive subject in the United States, which has led in particular to mobilizations on university campuses.
Multiple altercations took place on Sunday in front of the Adas Torah synagogue, with shoving and sometimes beatings, between demonstrators often wearing keffiyehs and people displaying Israeli flags, according to several videos posted on social networks.