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Since Oct. 7, we’ve seen the ugliest public display of Jew-hatred since the demise of National Socialist Germany, and it shows no sign of abating. Is this America?
Missouri’s KMOV reported that three synagogues in Creve Coeur, Missouri—Temple Israel, Temple Emanuel, and Shaare Emeth—received bomb threats on Sunday. No one would have thought of Creve Coeur as a hotbed either of Marxist Antifa types or of Islamic jihad sympathizers, but it is clear that even America’s heartland isn’t free of the maladies that plague that nation today.
Creve Coeur and St. Louis County Police, accompanied by bomb-sniffing dogs, searched all three synagogues and found no explosive material. They “said after the search there were no immediate safety concerns.” But as an added safety measure, they searched other synagogues in the area as well.
These are just the latest bomb threats to synagogues in the United States. Nashville’s WSMV reported that the Jewish Federation of Greater Nashville “announced they, and other Jewish organizations, received an email threat on Sunday morning.” The Federation noted that “these threats are part of a national trend to harass and intimidate American Jews.”
It does indeed look like a national trend. Bangor, Maine’s WMTW reported that “South Portland Congregation Bet Ha’am was searched by police after a bomb threat was emailed to the organization on Sunday morning.” From WILX in Lansing, Michigan, it looked to be the same story: “Officials were called out to a congregation in East Lansing about a bomb threat Sunday morning. On Sunday at 11 a.m., police responded to a bomb threat at a congregation on Coolidge Road. East Lansing police, officials from Michigan State University, and the Ingham County Sheriff’s Office investigated the scene.” A synagogue, Congregation Shaarey Zadek, is on Coolidge Road in East Lansing.
None of these threats turned out to be genuine: no bombs were found. But the threats themselves may have served their intended purpose. Both radical leftists and Islamic jihadis love to terrorize those whom they hate and wish to destroy; the Qur’an even contains commands to “strike terror in the enemies of Allah” (8:60; cf. 3:151 and 8:12).
Threatening synagogues hasn’t been the only attempt to terrify and terrorize Jews and supporters of Israel. In Philadelphia several weeks ago, pro-Palestinian protesters gathered in front of a falafel shop, Goldie, and chanted: “Goldie, Goldie, you can’t hide. We charge you with genocide.” Has Goldie been mincing Palestinians and serving them up as falafel? No, but the owner of the shop, Michael Solomonov, is not only Jewish, but Israeli.
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Jim says
The US needs to suppress antiSemitism and expel any foreigners who practice it, and imprison the citizens. The schools and universities should start teaching against antiSemitism in the future. And our politicians should speak out against it. We need to get rid of Obama and Biden and the rest of the far leftists.
Bexarkat says
I believe there is still “a silent majority” of Americans who will soon push back against the leftist hoards rampaging our streets and buildings. Many are passive but will vote next November to make America great again. Marxism, like a cancer, has spread too deeply into the media and academia for there to be a hope of change, but I still have faith in the American people who will not tolerate activity such as this too much longer.
The left is demonizing Israel’s best friend who ever sat in the White House, since Harry Truman, trying to make him out as a white supremacist and a Hitleresque bigot. While the truth is, there are more nazis in American government among the Democrat party than the Republican.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Jews need to read the writing on the wall, switch sides from (D) to (R) and move to red states. Embrace the culture of gun ownership, & be safer. NY, MN, MI have all fallen