SPLC: Another Wave of Bomb Threats Hit Jewish Institutions, Worrying and Uniting Communities

[inanna]

February 28, 2017

The Levite Jewish Community Center of Birmingham, Alabama’s mission is to “provide a welcoming, family-oriented gathering place for a diverse membership to engage in meaningful experiences of the mind, body and soul.” But they have been prevented from accomplishing this on three separate occasions since the year began. Days typically filled with children’s activities and fitness were spent evacuating the premises while law enforcement and their K9s searched for a bomb after a threat was phoned in.

The Levite Jewish Community Center experience is just one of 31 such threats that occurred on Monday, February 27 and more than 100 since January 4. No bombs have been found.

This last wave of threats hit not only community centers but Jewish day schools as well. Multiple students at David Posnack Jewish Day School in Davies, Florida, which received a bomb threat at 9:20 am yesterday, expressed fear. Parents did as well, including Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz whose own children once attended the school. One grandparent, a holocaust victim, cried when he heard the news.

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These threats add to the charged atmosphere in the United States which has seen a rise in hate incidents, including a number of anti-Semitic acts and vandalism at two Jewish cemeteries.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/02/28/another-wave-bomb-threats-hit-jewish-institutions-worrying-and-uniting-communities

More than 100 bomb threats since January 4th.

[shenmue]

1. It must stop!

[Behind the Aegis]

2. Makes me wonder if they are "baiting the water" somehow.

I know there are those who think democrats are behind it (the "president" and his resident conspiracy assholes) and some who think the Jews are behind it ("sounds like a fundraiser for the ADL" (yes, that is a real comment from a self-professed progressive)). In reality, I am sure some are pranks, but I have a nagging feeling it may be something more of a long game. Get people were there are so complacent, they don't evacuate, and then BOOM. A perfect set-up to "blame the victims" because they didn't "follow protocol". Sure, the horror of the crime will be a focus, but I guaran-godamned-tee there will be those who will blame the administrators, parents, etc (even the Jewish community) for the act of violence against us.