FBI and DHS Warn of ‘Elevated Threat’ to Jewish Community After Boulder, DC Attacks

They said that the Israel-Hamas conflict ’may motivate other violent extremists.’

FBI agents cordon off the scene outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a shooting that left two people dead, in Washington, in the early hours of May 22, 2025. Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security warned of an “elevated threat” to the U.S. Jewish community following an attack last weekend in Boulder, Colorado, and last month’s killing of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington.

In a bulletin issued on Thursday, the agencies said that the Israel-Hamas conflict “may motivate other violent extremists and hate crime perpetrators with similar grievances to conduct violence against Jewish and Israeli communities and their supporters.”