(Jewish Group) Military Religious Freedom Foundation and Jewish leader face murder-for-hire threats [View all]

Postings offering $5,000 to kill members of a group that advocates for freedom from religious coercion in the military, which include an extra $1,000 if the victim is Jewish, have drawn federal law enforcement attention, the Jewish leader of the group said.

“We are working very closely with federal especially federal and local law enforcement agencies to try to track these people down,” Mikey Weinstein, who founded the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

The threats, posted Saturday on the comments section of the foundation’s website, say “$5,000 will be payed [sic] to anyone who beh3ads [sic] an MRFF member” and “A thousand more if they are a kike.”

The foundation’s webmaster removed the threats. Weinstein shared screenshots with JTA, as well as automatic alerts that he receives from the website as verification of the postings.

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