Jewish Centers in Several States Targeted With Bomb Threats

[RavenSky]

Bomb threats targeted Jewish community centers in at least six states Monday, and some were made with prerecorded telephone calls, according to an official with the Jewish Federations of North America.

It's not clear why up to 20 Jewish community centers across the South and Northeast were targeted, said Richard Sandler, chair of the JFNA board of trustees.

"Some of the threats were robo-calls," said Sandler, adding that the number of threats was unusually high.

No additional details about the calls were immediately available. Some community centers were evacuated but no explosives were found, Sandler said.

Bomb threats also targeted Jewish community centers and schools in central Florida and Tampa last week, but Sandler said there was no apparent link between those threats and the calls received Monday.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/miami-area-jewish-centers-targeted-threats-44655934


Two of the threats were called in to JJC's here - one on Miami Beach and one in Kendall

 

[Tigers!]

Has anyone blamed Trump yet?

 

[Harry Bosch]

Has anyone blamed Trump yet?

As an aside, republicans blamed every problem on Obama, despite the fact that he only controlled 1/3 of government. You guys now control everything! Congratulations. But yea, you'll be subject to a little blame. Better get used to early!

 

[Tigers!]

Has anyone blamed Trump yet?

As an aside, republicans blamed every problem on Obama, despite the fact that he only controlled 1/3 of government. You guys now control everything! Congratulations. But yea, you'll be subject to a little blame. Better get used to early!

You're getting ahead of you self a little mate. I'm from Australia. That being said I could never have voted for either Trump or Clinton.

I just note that every 'minority' group (or so it seems) thinks that Trump will enact pogroms against them viz. Latinos, blacks, Muslims, unions etc. Just wondering if the Jews felt the same way?

 

[RavenSky]

No one that I know of has blamed Trump directly, and I personally don't think he is anti-semitic towards Jews. For one, his son-in-law is Jewish, and his daughter has converted. He has appointed his son-in-law to his administration. Moreover, he has consistently taken a strong pro-Israel position.

That said, it is a fact that hate crimes targeting Jews have increased right along with his rise to power. He may not be anti-semitic, but a portion of his most visible supporters certainly are.

 

[Tigers!]

No one that I know of has blamed Trump directly, and I personally don't think he is anti-semitic towards Jews. For one, his son-in-law is Jewish, and his daughter has converted. He has appointed his son-in-law to his administration. Moreover, he has consistently taken a strong pro-Israel position.

That said, it is a fact that hate crimes targeting Jews have increased right along with his rise to power. He may not be anti-semitic, but a portion of his most visible supporters certainly are.

I know all of that. It justs seems to me in Australia that if anything bad happens in the USA at present Trump is reflexively blamed with little apparent thought given to plausibility or relevance.

 

[whichphilosophy]

No one that I know of has blamed Trump directly, and I personally don't think he is anti-semitic towards Jews. For one, his son-in-law is Jewish, and his daughter has converted. He has appointed his son-in-law to his administration. Moreover, he has consistently taken a strong pro-Israel position.

That said, it is a fact that hate crimes targeting Jews have increased right along with his rise to power. He may not be anti-semitic, but a portion of his most visible supporters certainly are.

I know all of that. It justs seems to me in Australia that if anything bad happens in the USA at present Trump is reflexively blamed with little apparent thought given to plausibility or relevance.

The UK is facing a real problem of anti-Semitism but it is not being correctly addressed.

In its usual bungling manner the Tory government seems to be intent on new laws which seem more about protecting Zionism than anything else. Ken Livingstone got suspended from the Labour party for saying something which was true regarding a meeting between Zionists and the Nazis (Haavara agreement) but did not infer the Zionists and Nazis were on the same side.

https://www.theguardian.com/society...tion-government-combat-hate-crime-jews-israel

The government is to formally adopt a definition of what constitutes antisemitism, which includes over-sweeping condemnation of Israel, with Theresa May saying the measure will help efforts to combat hate crime against Jews.

Britain will become one of the first countries to use this definition of antisemitism, as agreed last May at a conference of the Berlin-based International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), the prime minister will say in London.

A Downing Street statement said the intention of such a definition was to “ensure that culprits will not be able to get away with being antisemitic because the term is ill-defined, or because different organisations or bodies have different interpretations of it”.

The UK has kindly taken in several refugees from the Middle East and some tend to be anti Jewish, along with some residents who are now British citizens. So there has been a build up of those who don't like Israel with disliking Jews as part of or in addition to the equation.

The UK simply needs to enforce its current anti discriminatory laws and review them if current legislation is insufficient.

 

[RavenSky]

No one that I know of has blamed Trump directly, and I personally don't think he is anti-semitic towards Jews. For one, his son-in-law is Jewish, and his daughter has converted. He has appointed his son-in-law to his administration. Moreover, he has consistently taken a strong pro-Israel position.

That said, it is a fact that hate crimes targeting Jews have increased right along with his rise to power. He may not be anti-semitic, but a portion of his most visible supporters certainly are.

I know all of that. It justs seems to me in Australia that if anything bad happens in the USA at present Trump is reflexively blamed with little apparent thought given to plausibility or relevance.

Well that has not happened here, and this is not a thread about Trump

Meanwhile, anti-semitism is rising again in the U.S., and it is worrisome.

 

[Elixir]

I know all of that. It justs seems to me in Australia that if anything bad happens in the USA at present Trump is reflexively blamed with little apparent thought given to plausibility or relevance.

Well that has not happened here, and this is not a thread about Trump

Meanwhile, anti-semitism is rising again in the U.S., and it is worrisome.

It's hard to separate it from Trump, since it's another facet of the demonization that is part and parcel of his way of coping. If something is wrong or painful, the first thing to do is to identify the demon, then attack it. Trump endorses and employs that tactic in almost everything, so it's hardly surprising that some of his admirers take it up.

 

[crispy]

Has anyone blamed Trump yet?

Not directly, but anti-Semitic supporters are quite ecstatic about Trump, and thus we see a rise in these types of event.

 

[Axulus]

Has anyone blamed Trump yet?

Not directly, but anti-Semitic supporters are quite ecstatic about Trump, and thus we see a rise in these types of event.

As we learned in the other thread, we can't assume the people making these bomb threats are anti-Semitic. They might just be protesting Israel.

 

[crispy]

Not directly, but anti-Semitic supporters are quite ecstatic about Trump, and thus we see a rise in these types of event.

As we learned in the other thread, we can't assume the people making these bomb threats are anti-Semitic. They might just be protesting Israel.

Do you believe they are coming from people trying to protest Israel?

 

[LordKiran]

As we learned in the other thread, we can't assume the people making these bomb threats are anti-Semitic. They might just be protesting Israel.

Do you believe they are coming from people trying to protest Israel?

Unlikely, but never-the-less possible. Though I would think someone trying to protest Israel through an act of terror would blow up a building related to Israel's interaction with the US, like an embassy or the HQ for a pro-Israeli lobby.