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JudyM

(29,251 posts)
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 09:04 AM Mar 2017

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

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All 100 senators appeal to Trump administration: Jewish center threats 'are not isolated incidents,' (Original Post) JudyM Mar 2017 OP
Bannon will take it under advisement. dalton99a Mar 2017 #1
All Terrorist Matter safeinOhio Mar 2017 #2
tRump Scarsdale Mar 2017 #3
Oh my HAB911 Mar 2017 #4
Sorry. republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief busy planning next golf weekend Achilleaze Mar 2017 #5
Anti-Semitic President Abouttime Mar 2017 #6
Somebody better let his jewish son-in-law and jewish daughter know about this!1nt m-lekktor Mar 2017 #8
Capo Kushner? Raster Mar 2017 #11
One of Adolph Hitler's close friends was Jewish IronLionZion Mar 2017 #14
Erhard Milch atreides1 Mar 2017 #15
Might be the beginning of Nazi punching IronLionZion Mar 2017 #27
His son-in-law comes from a rich family Merlot Mar 2017 #17
Not a bleep on this from Sputniknews and RT. DetlefK Mar 2017 #7
Bingo. dalton99a Mar 2017 #9
Yep. yardwork Mar 2017 #24
Republicans are knocking over gravestones in Jewish cemeteries Submariner Mar 2017 #10
IKR, I'm sure McConnell was all over it, taking a leadership role in enlisting GOPers to sign. JudyM Mar 2017 #30
They're jumpy at the local JCC. Girard442 Mar 2017 #12
Why don't Ivanka and Jared say something? IronLionZion Mar 2017 #13
What should iwanna and jarhead say? Merlot Mar 2017 #18
Stop doing it IronLionZion Mar 2017 #26
trumptf needs to say it, not his kids. Merlot Mar 2017 #32
Trump is too stupid to say it IronLionZion Mar 2017 #33
Ivanka & Jared are from families so privileged & rich & criminal ... Hekate Mar 2017 #23
Too late dbackjon Mar 2017 #16
Thank you JudyM saidsimplesimon Mar 2017 #19
They bypassed Dolt-45 and sent it to Sessions, Comey and Kelly. JudyM Mar 2017 #20
Tell me to wake up. saidsimplesimon Mar 2017 #21
My childhood synagogue was threatened Danmel Mar 2017 #22
Constituent pressure must be working for the full 100 to sign. It tells me that anti-Semitism ... Hekate Mar 2017 #25
Funny, 'cause Tangeranus DID say something about them. Hong Kong Cavalier Mar 2017 #28
Sounds right. He didn't think that up himself. JudyM Mar 2017 #36
But but...they don't ever have any protests with broken windows!! Bengus81 Mar 2017 #29
"Dear Nazis, Please stop the anti-semitic terrorism that you endorse" Kimchijeon Mar 2017 #31
Sorry - he's not going to challenge his base on this one. Blue Idaho Mar 2017 #34
Agreed, that may be partly why they addressed the letter to Sessions and Comey and the DHS guy. JudyM Mar 2017 #35
Agreed! nt. Blue Idaho Mar 2017 #37

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
3. tRump
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 09:14 AM
Mar 2017

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.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
5. Sorry. republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief busy planning next golf weekend
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 09:20 AM
Mar 2017

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)
6. Anti-Semitic President
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 09:29 AM
Mar 2017

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.

Raster

(20,998 posts)
11. Capo Kushner?
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 09:50 AM
Mar 2017

If he wasn't the boss' son-in-law, Reichsmarshall Bannon would have him on the next cattle car.

IronLionZion

(45,466 posts)
14. One of Adolph Hitler's close friends was Jewish
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 10:57 AM
Mar 2017

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.

IronLionZion

(45,466 posts)
27. Might be the beginning of Nazi punching
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 01:52 PM
Mar 2017
On surrendering, he presented his baton to Brigadier Derek Mills-Roberts, who was so disgusted by what he had seen when liberating the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp that he broke the baton over Milch's head.[

Merlot

(9,696 posts)
17. His son-in-law comes from a rich family
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 12:06 PM
Mar 2017

has media contacts, and is involved in many aspects of drumptfs business dealings.

So he gets a pass.

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
7. Not a bleep on this from Sputniknews and RT.
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 09:33 AM
Mar 2017

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

(12,504 posts)
10. Republicans are knocking over gravestones in Jewish cemeteries
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 09:47 AM
Mar 2017

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!!!

Girard442

(6,081 posts)
12. They're jumpy at the local JCC.
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 10:13 AM
Mar 2017

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

(45,466 posts)
13. Why don't Ivanka and Jared say something?
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 10:52 AM
Mar 2017

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)
18. What should iwanna and jarhead say?
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 12:08 PM
Mar 2017

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

(45,466 posts)
26. Stop doing it
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 01:47 PM
Mar 2017

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.

Hekate

(90,734 posts)
23. Ivanka & Jared are from families so privileged & rich & criminal ...
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 01:08 PM
Mar 2017

...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)
16. Too late
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 12:04 PM
Mar 2017

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)
19. Thank you JudyM
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 12:09 PM
Mar 2017

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

(29,251 posts)
20. They bypassed Dolt-45 and sent it to Sessions, Comey and Kelly.
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 12:15 PM
Mar 2017

McConnell, of course, will be giving a press conference about this any minute.

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
21. Tell me to wake up.
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 12:44 PM
Mar 2017

This must be a nightmare? The zombie apocalypse variety of players, wretched actors without either a functioning brain or empathy?

Hekate

(90,734 posts)
25. Constituent pressure must be working for the full 100 to sign. It tells me that anti-Semitism ...
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 01:21 PM
Mar 2017

... ( 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)
28. Funny, 'cause Tangeranus DID say something about them.
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:00 PM
Mar 2017

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.

Bengus81

(6,931 posts)
29. But but...they don't ever have any protests with broken windows!!
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:18 PM
Mar 2017

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)
31. "Dear Nazis, Please stop the anti-semitic terrorism that you endorse"
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 05:57 PM
Mar 2017

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

(5,049 posts)
34. Sorry - he's not going to challenge his base on this one.
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 10:33 PM
Mar 2017

He needs those white supremacists as cheerleaders.

JudyM

(29,251 posts)
35. Agreed, that may be partly why they addressed the letter to Sessions and Comey and the DHS guy.
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 10:45 PM
Mar 2017

TRump is truly the biggest loser.

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