All 100 senators appeal to Trump administration: Jewish center threats 'are not isolated incidents,'
Source: Business Insider
they're 'accelerating'
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All 100 US Senators signed a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, and FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday asking for "swift action" over repeated bomb threats against Jewish organizations around the country.
The letter said the threats "are not isolated incidents" and cited stats from the Jewish Federations of North America. According to the organization, in the first two months of 2017, at least 98 "incidents" were reported, targeting JCCs and Jewish Day Schools at 81 locations in 33 states. Amid the threats, Jewish cemeteries saw at least 75 to 100 headstones vandalized, The Washington Post reported.
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Senators in the letter said they were "concerned that the number of incidents is accelerating and failure to address and deter these threats will place innocent people at risk and threaten the financial viability of JCCs, many of which are institutions in their communities."
They called on Sessions, Kelly, and Comey for action, saying, "Your departments can provide crucial assistance by helping JCCs, Jewish Day Schools and synagogues improve their physical security, deterring threats from being made, and investigating and prosecuting those making these threats or who may seek to act on these threats on the future."
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/senators-appeal-trump-administration-jewish-center-threats-2017-3
dalton99a
(81,566 posts)safeinOhio
(32,714 posts)no exceptions
aleady told people to "Stop it" Wasn't that enough? Maybe he can tell them "Leave the Jews alone, go after the blacks again" Then, as an example, he goes after President Obama for wiretapping tRump Tower. (supposedly) Air Farce One should be grounded until he is investigated. Save taxpayers at least $3 MILLION this weekend. I wonder if his Russian pals have that place bugged? We know tRump listens in to phone calls guests make, he admitted that.
President Bannon/Trump can't alienate their base!
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)republican Comrade Casino has no time for triffles. He's busy planning how to spend another $4 million of taxpayer money to fund his next weekend golfing and hob-nobbing with republican swells at "swanky" Mar a Lago.
Abouttime
(675 posts)It's obvious tRump hates Jews, Blacks, Women, GBLT, Immigrants, and all Americans who didn't vote for him.
tRumps silence regarding this crisis tells us all we need to know, he must be removed from office ASAP.
m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)If he wasn't the boss' son-in-law, Reichsmarshall Bannon would have him on the next cattle car.
IronLionZion
(45,514 posts)his commanding officer when he served in WW1. Hitler provided some protection for this one man during the Holocaust which allowed him to live while others perished in the camps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Moritz_Hess
Perhaps someone should use that as proof that Hitler wasn't anti-Semitic?
Trump has told us that he is the least anti-Semitic person. We can always trust what he says.
atreides1
(16,091 posts)IronLionZion
(45,514 posts)Merlot
(9,696 posts)has media contacts, and is involved in many aspects of drumptfs business dealings.
So he gets a pass.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Bomb-threats against Jews? That's outrageous and noteworthy! It makes the US look bad!!! So why not report on it?????
The answer is very simple:
Because then their comment-sections would overflow with Nazis writing how the Jews deserve this or how these threats are false-flag andsoforth.
And you cannot pretend to be a respectable news-outlet if your readers are proud Nazis.
Submariner
(12,506 posts)just like the bomb threats, it is quite obvious that the racist anti-semitic GOP are feeling their oats and spreading their wings to be able to show their racism and anti-semitism in public.
They love it.
Don't believe the GOP signatures on that letter. They are LIARS!!!
JudyM
(29,265 posts)Girard442
(6,083 posts)Stopped at the front desk to pick up a film festival flyer. When I walked around to the side to look at something, the lady suddenly got agitated and said, "You can't go in without swiping your member ID card!" Took me a moment to realize she was talking to me, since I wasn't actually going in, just moving in that general direction.
These times suck.
IronLionZion
(45,514 posts)And the 100 senators should also say something about the shootings of Indians and Indian-Americans for being brown.
Yes threats and vandalizing cemeteries is very bad stuff. Shooting people is also bad.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)that drumptf really a nice guy in person? That he really likes his jewish grandkids?
Who cars what those in their white tower have to say?
IronLionZion
(45,514 posts)They could say something to denounce what their more extreme supporters are doing.
A lot of white supremacists feel energized and emboldened by Trump's victory. They have their own visions of how to Make America Great Again.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)IronLionZion
(45,514 posts)But his Jewish kids ought to know better
Hekate
(90,773 posts)...that I think they believe they are untouchable by the tides of social change.
Ask yourself what goes thru the minds of the worst polluters and the politicians who vote to protect them. Somehow the laws of physics won't allow their own children's brains and lungs to be poisoned. Their personal property won't drown in the rising seas.
It's the only way I can comprehend Jared's association with his father in law: willful blindness.
Well, Passover is coming in just a month, and maybe something in the services or the Seder will get through to him and possibly even her: It can happen here, boychick.
dbackjon
(6,578 posts)You assholes confirmed sessions so he's not going to do jack squat fuck every single one of you that voted for Jeffrey Beauregard sessions any American blood loss is on your hands and you guys are committing treason
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)An appeal to 45, the mad man who promotes a "Muslim Ban"? It is the FBI and James Comey who need to stand up at the plate and deliver protection, investigation and procecution.
The executive branch continues to under perform and insult the intelligence of the majority of American people on a tweet by tweet basis.
JudyM
(29,265 posts)McConnell, of course, will be giving a press conference about this any minute.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)This must be a nightmare? The zombie apocalypse variety of players, wretched actors without either a functioning brain or empathy?
Danmel
(4,921 posts)I went to day school there and had my bat mitzvah there.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-jewish-center-threatened-pig-blood-voicemail-article-1.2990732?utm_content=buffera3c94&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
My son was a summer camp counselor at one of the Jewish Community Centers that was a target of a bomb threat.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=/amp/s/patch.com/new-york/plainview/amp/26949408/jewish-community-center-evacuated&ved=0ahUKEwi38aH9rsfSAhVMNSYKHUrNA0YQFggfMAE&usg=AFQjCNFU6AfCpvXD2Il-rpyb0B_cePNn0g&sig2=P9ICh901ScuyKHU1shSDJQ
It is real and personal. As the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, it is chilling.
Hekate
(90,773 posts)... ( at least of the brutally physically overt kind) is still unacceptable to the vast majority of Americans, and that gives me a lot of hope.
Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,573 posts)He said "sometimes it's the reverse" to make certain people look bad.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/02/trump-anti-semitic-attacks-sometimes-its-reverse
Translation: Bannon told him to blame the Jewish centers for calling in their own bomb threats to make the "alt-right" (New American Nazis) look bad.
JudyM
(29,265 posts)Bengus81
(6,932 posts)Nah,they just GUN down brown people in bars and driveways. Then they plan TERRORIST bombings of an entire apartment building in Kansas to rid the World of 100+ Mooselims,including children. They were going to have a truck load of explosives at all four corners of the building.
One of those arrested last summer was proudly showing his Trump support with a sign in his front yard when the FBI arrived to search his home. They they move on to Cemeteries and desecrate them. No broken windows in a protest,just dead people.
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)I mean I get that it has do be said as a protest but please... this admin won't do jackshit to stop it
Blue Idaho
(5,054 posts)He needs those white supremacists as cheerleaders.
JudyM
(29,265 posts)TRump is truly the biggest loser.