The president of the United States, Joe Biden, announced this Wednesday the first anti-islamophobia law in the history of the country in a context in which numerous reports highlight the growth of both Islamophobia and anti-Semitismboth exacerbated by the recent escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“President Biden ran to restore the soul of our nation. He is emphatic: In the United States there is no place for hatred against anyone“White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.

Furthermore, Jean-Pierre has remembered and mourned the murder of Wadea al Fayoume, a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy that he was murdered in mid-September outside the city of Chicago for being Muslim; His mother was seriously injured after being attacked by a 71-year-old man.

“For too long, Muslims in America, and those who are perceived as Muslims, such as Arabs and Sikhs“have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks and other discriminatory incidents,” the spokesperson said.

This announcement is framed in the efforts of the Biden Administration in its attempts to “counter Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and related forms of prejudice and discrimination” within the country.