{"id":71104,"date":"2017-03-26T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71104"},"modified":"2017-03-26T10:20:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T14:20:15","slug":"israeli-teen-behind-threats-to-jewish-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71104","title":{"rendered":"Israeli teen behind threats to Jewish community"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press<\/a> reports that a 19-year-old Israeli was arrested for making about 150 bomb threats to various Jewish communities across the United States. Of course, before the arrest on Thursday, President Trump was blamed for encouraging the threats;<\/p>\n

Previously, Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, which fights anti-Semitism and monitors extremism, had partly blamed Trump for creating an atmosphere that fueled the bomb threats and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries, among other recent harassment. “His well-documented reluctance to address rising anti-Semitism helped to create an environment in which extremists felt emboldened,” Greenblatt wrote last month.<\/p>\n

On Feb. 28, in a meeting with state attorneys general, Trump had suggested the phoned-in bomb threats may have been designed to make “others look bad,” according to Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro. The remark raised concerns that Trump was downplaying bigotry. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So you’d think that these groups would take a step back from their accusations, but, no, that doesn’t put money in the coffers;<\/p>\n

Steven Goldstein, executive director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, a civil rights and social justice group based in New York, said the arrest in Israel doesn’t change Trump’s record of being slow and insufficiently forceful in condemning anti-Jewish prejudice and bigotry in general. The center had repeatedly pointed to the bomb threats as evidence of “a national emergency of anti-Semitism” and accused Trump of failing to recognize the “real evidence” behind the problem.<\/p>\n

“Nobody has said that Donald Trump himself has spray-painted swastikas or tipped over gravestones or that he picked up the phone and made bomb threats,” Goldstein said. “What we were condemning was the silence. Organizations had to shame Donald Trump into responding.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, some kid in Israel was just waiting for the US President condemn his bomb threats before he’d stop. Makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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