A Republican rep. from Nebraska recently made a plea in Congress for Washington to do more to stand up for American Jews in the face of mounting anti-Semitic incidents.

Addressing his fellow politicians on the alarming rise of anti-Semitic hate crimes in the US in recent months, Don Bacon (NE-R) called the situation “very concerning.”

He noted that with incidents not happening in isolation but as part of a broader attack on the nation’s Jewish communities, “their sheer volume should frighten us all.”