When asked this week about Hanukkah — which starts at midnight Thursday — White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre equivocated her concerns of Islamophobia, a pivot that raised some eyebrows.

“We have seen an uptick in hate, just more broadly, in different communities — obviously, also in the Muslim community,” Pierre said in a daily press briefing Tuesday, as Newsweek reported.

“And so, we will do everything that we can to make sure that these communities feel safe.”