FBI Director Christopher Wray said his agency does not monitor the campus protests over the Israel–Hamas war.
NBC News‘s Lester Holt asked Wray if he was concerned about the possible threats coming from the protests over Gaza.
“Of course demonstrations themselves are not something that we, the FBI, get involved in, but when violence ensues, that’s when we get concerned, when you have threats of violence. So we have seen, even before Oct. 7, we saw a significant increase, especially in antisemitic threats and antisemitic violence,” Wray said in an interview with Holt on Tuesday.
Holt followed up with a question, “Are you actively monitoring these protests?”
“We don’t monitor protests, but we do share intelligence about specific threats of violence with campuses and
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