Jihadist hate for Jews allegedly inspired 24-year-old Egyptian Khaled Awad on July 1 to viciously stab Boston area Rabbi Shlomo Noginski outside a Jewish day school. Suffolk County authorities were planning to charge the Egyptian chemical engineering student with domestic terrorism-related hate crimes, and the father-of-12 rabbi is recovering from his eight stab wounds.
But this latest attack should not yet fade from public view without note that it squarely underscores a Biden administration move less than a week later that almost surely will condemn more Americans to Rabbi Noginski’s fate.
Fox News disclosed that the Egyptian was in the United States illegally on an expired student visa known as an “F-1” granted in 2019 and maintained even after he was implicated in an earlier anti-Semitic attack less than a year later on a Jewish University of Florida roommate. Awad remained in the country after he eventually dropped out of school and moved to Boston, where he found opportunity to strike.
This was the latest of far too many foreign students from Muslim-majority nations who, once allowed to enter the front gates on their F-1 visas, attacked or plotted since one of the 9/11 hijackers paved that same way in.
Almost without media notice less than a week after the Rabbi Noginski attack, on July 6, the Biden Department of Homeland Security withdrew a September 2020 regulation from the Federal Register that would have subjected F-1 visa holders from Egypt and many other countries of well-founded national security concern to badly needed oversight and security vetting.
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