The hate crimes charges mean prosecutors will have to prove that the man was motivated by antisemitism when he opened fire on on the staffers.
This week, Israel and Hamas are engaging in peace talks in Egypt.
Northwestern University President Michael Schill announced Thursday that he will resign, ending a three-year tenure marked by the freeze of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding by the Trump administration and heated criticism from House Republicans over the university's response to campus protests.
The posts have since been deleted, but widely circulated screenshots show Elmo apparently calling for violence against Jews and calling for the release of files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Jewish advocacy groups slammed President Donald Trump after he used an antisemitic trope to praise the passage of his spending bill.
"It looked really bad to a lot of us in the Jewish community. And it was being celebrated by white nationalist groups," said Tyler Gregory, CEO of San Francisco's Jewish Community Relations Council.