U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins is reassuring the native Jewish neighborhood that the Department of Justice and FBI are intently monitoring the “Mapping Project” that targets Boston-area Jewish teams, stressing that the federal businesses are “leaving no stone unturned.”
Area Jewish organizations have been sounding the alarm concerning the new pro-Palestine web site that places a bullseye on native Jewish teams, faculties and others. The interactive map names and lists the addresses for Jewish teams, along with native politicians, governments, police departments, universities and firms.
“We are leaving no stone unturned because I do not want to wait until someone actually takes up this entity and shows up at one of these addresses, and does something to harm property or heaven forbid a human being,” Rollins mentioned throughout an Anti-Defamation League briefing concerning the Mapping Project this week.
The creator of the web site is unknown, however the map has been promoted by BDS Boston — “Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement in the greater Boston area in solidarity with Palestine.”
“Our goal in pursuing this collective mapping was to reveal the local entities and networks that enact devastation, so we can dismantle them,” the Mapping Project web site states. “Every entity has an address, every network can be disrupted.”
Rollins mentioned the language on the Mapping Project web site is “dangerous for sure.”
FBI Boston Special Agent in Charge Joseph Bonavolonta “takes this very seriously,” she mentioned, additionally noting that the Zionist Organization of America wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray about investigating the Mapping Project.
“We will be discussing this matter, and we are watching it very closely,” Rollins added.
She additionally known as out the “trolls” who’re behind the web site.
“We don’t want to give these trolls the indication when they see, ‘Oh look: 1,000 people went to our website.’ We know we’re going there because we’re disgusted with what we’re seeing,” Rollins mentioned. “But they’re going to try to turn this into, ‘We have more people that support the hate that we are spewing, the lies that we are saying.’ ”
Many synagogues and different Jewish establishments have been on a better degree of alert following the discharge of the Mapping Project, in response to the Anti-Defamation League’s Robert Trestan.
“This has crossed the line,” Trestan mentioned, later including, “It’s not OK when you’re going to cross the line and call for the dismantling of institutions and putting peoples’ addresses and names and calling for this kind of action.”
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