US/World News

ISIS threatens Jewish N.Y. museum for hosting Kurdish event

(JTA) – Police increased security at a Jewish museum here after the Islamic State reportedly suggested it as a target for attack for hosting an event about Kurds fighting the terrorist group. The threats against the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust are unsubstantiated, but security was increased Sunday and Monday as a precautionary measure, NBC reported. The museum is not hosting a Kurdish-themed exhibition, Lisa Safier, the museum’s communications director, told JTA. It is, however, screening a movie Monday evening about Kurdish fighters battling the Islamic State. Safier declined to comment on the report of the threats. The film’s director, Bernard-Henri Levy, a prominent French-Jewish public intellectual, will be present at the screening of “Peshmerga,” for which he traveled to Iraq to meet with the fighters.

SHARE
RELATED POSTS
McGill U: vote to keep pro-Israel students out of student gov’t ok
Argentina’s chief rabbi brutally beaten in home attack
Church of England: Centuries of Christian antisemitism led to Holocaust

Leave Your Reply