FBI says significant increase in reported threats since October 7 attack, mostly against Jewish community

The FBI has seen a significant increase in threats since the October 7 attack in Israel, FBI Director Christopher Wray told congress on Wednesday.

He said the "biggest chunk" have been against the Jewish community.

“The number of tips and threats that are being reported to us have gone up significantly since October 7,” Wray testified to the House Homeland Security Committee.

“The biggest chunk of the threats that have been reported into us by a good margin are threats to Jewish community, synagogues, Jewish prominent officials, things like that,” Wray said, adding that “we do also have some threats to Muslim Americans that have also been called in.”

The director said that the FBI has also received a “large number of tips and leads related specifically to Hamas and radicalization and recruitment.”

“We are urgently running down every tip and lead we get and trying to mitigate them,” he said