JCC bomb threats: How the anti-Trump media created a marketplace for anti-Jewish hate crimes

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Who could have imagined that the wave of bomb threats against JCCs in the US was actually (though inadvertently) an exercise in exposing agenda-driven media malfeasance? The depraved troll behind the JCC bomb threats had been threatening targets like shopping malls and airlines, as well as Jewish institutions in countries including Australia, New Zealand, and America for the past two years. When his threats produced little or no media coverage, he abandoned them.

But after Trump’s election, he suddenly hit pay dirt. Threats against U.S. Jewish institutions fit right into the American Jewish community’s loudly proclaimed narrative that the election had empowered right-wing anti-Semites, epitomized by Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt’s ludicrous assertion that U.S. anti-Semitism was now at a level unseen since 1930s Germany. Moreover, such threats fit right into the broader left-wing narrative that Trump’s election had empowered white supremacists, racists and other right-wing hate groups.

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The anti-Trump lunacy actually encouraged the very attacks it was  pretended it wanted to combat.

By making the bomb threats part of a broader anti-Trump narrative without a shred of evidence, “American Jewish leaders discredited both themselves and the battle against anti-Semitism while also actively encouraging copycat attacks.”

This is not new. American Jewish leaders have aligned themselves with enemies of the Jewish people while attacking those of us who proudly stand in defense of Zionism and Jews.

The Real Trump Link in the Threats on Jews

By Evelyn Gordon, March 28, 2017:

How media created the very climate of hate they sought to preempt.

The arrest of a Jewish American-Israeli teen for making hundreds of bomb threats against American Jewish institutions in recent months seems to put paid to the favorite explanation advanced by both American Jews and the broader American left–i.e., that Donald Trump’s election empowered right-wing anti-Semites, leading to an upsurge in anti-Semitic acts. Yet the fact remains that the number of threats did jump dramatically following Trump’s election, to a degree that seems hard to attribute to mere coincidence. Now, new disclosures by the Israeli police provide a way to square that circle. It turns out the sudden increase was, in fact, connected to Trump’s election–not because of anything Trump did or didn’t do, but because of media’s hysterical reaction to it.

Police sources told Haaretz that the teen’s main goal appears to have been obtaining media coverage. He had been making bomb threats for at least two years, against a wide variety of targets in several different countries, and after every such threat, he would monitor the media. If the threat didn’t provoke much response, he would lose interest in that target and try again somewhere else. But if the threat did create a media stir, he’d start targeting similar institutions in the same general locale in the hope of producing a similar media buzz.

For most of the last two years–during which he threatened targets like shopping malls and airlines, as well as Jewish institutions in countries like Australia, New Zealand, and America–his threats produced little media coverage, so he didn’t repeat them. But after Trump’s election, he suddenly hit pay dirt. Threats against U.S. Jewish institutions fit right into the American Jewish community’s loudly proclaimed narrative that the election had empowered right-wing anti-Semites, epitomized by Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt’s ludicrous assertion that U.S. anti-Semitism was now at a level unseen since 1930s Germany. Moreover, such threats fit right into the broader left-wing narrative that Trump’s election had empowered white supremacists, racists and other right-wing hate groups.

Consequently, whereas anti-Semitic acts received little media coverage during President Barack Obama’s tenure, they suddenly began receiving massive media attention following Trump’s election–not just in America, but worldwide. The result, given the teen’s longstanding modus operandi, was inevitable: For the past few months, the Israeli police sources said, he has focused all his energy on threatening Jewish institutions in the U.S., because he knew that would create the media outcry he wanted.

There’s also a second Trump angle to this story, and it, too, contradicts the accepted narrative. The Israeli police sources told Haaretz that even though the bomb threats had gone on for two years and several different countries were involved in the investigation, until recently, capturing the perpetrator wasn’t considered high priority. What changed that, they said, was Donald Trump.

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A few weeks ago, he ordered the FBI to make nailing the suspect high priority. The FBI consequently sent 12 cyber crime experts to Israel, and with their help, the Israeli police managed to track down and collect evidence against the teen (Start-Up Nation has bypassed Israel’s police force; the country’s top geeks go into either business, the army, or the intelligence agencies).

In short, for all the criticism he justly earned for his belated and reluctant condemnations of anti-Semitism, Trump took action to stop it in a way his predecessor never did–a point to remember for anyone who believes that actions speak louder than words.

Many commentators have already noted that by rushing to blame Trump and his supporters for the bomb threats despite the complete absence of any evidence, the U.S. Jewish community has made the fight against anti-Semitism more difficult, because next time, its claims are liable to be met with considerable skepticism. But the new police information indicates that the damage was even worse than that: The anti-Trump hysteria actually encouraged the very attacks it was meant to combat.

The lesson here obviously isn’t that Jews shouldn’t react to anti-Semitic acts. But by tying the bomb threats into a broader anti-Trump narrative for their own political purposes, American Jewish leaders and their non-Jewish left-wing allies generated a degree of media hysteria that the acts on their own would not have produced. And that is precisely the type of hysteria that attracts copycats–in this case, not just the original perpetrator (who copycatted his own attacks once he saw they produced the desired media attention), but also the only other person arrested to date.

Absent this media hype, it seems unlikely that Juan Thompson, a black, left-wing radical who was stalking his girlfriend, would have come up with the idea of making trouble for her by phoning bomb threats into Jewish community centers and trying to make them look as if they were coming from her, instead of choosing any number of other possible targets.

In short, by making the bomb threats part of a broader anti-Trump narrative without a shred of evidence, American Jewish leaders discredited both themselves and the battle against anti-Semitism while also actively encouraging copycat attacks. Obviously, they didn’t mean to do any of those things. But there’s a lesson that needs to be learned here, and it goes way beyond the narrow issue of Donald Trump: Jewish interests aren’t identical to those of any political ideology, either liberal or conservative. And when you conflate Jewish interests with political ones, Jews are usually the ones who end up the losers.

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Otis T
Otis T
6 years ago

This sounds like something Chuck Schumer would gladly sponsor.

Dennis
Dennis
6 years ago

One cooco bird among the Jewish community should not be allowed to move us right thinking and fair minded people from the underlying sick source that constitutes the conduct of all anti-Semites worldwide. This moronic young man is just that. He is a no account. The problem that constitutes anti-Semitism has been with this world for eons. It is now being made worse by a belief system (Islam) that continues to give no quarter to those within the Jewish culture and now actively involves conduct and rhetoric that directly attacks all those non-believers of Islam. Anti- Semitism has never had a legitimate basis that would support such hate. Certainly, all of us living in the free world can and did direct our dislike for Nazism, Fascism, and Communism and belief systems like those that sought to dominate all others thru military and other heinous conduct, and our revulsion at these believers was justified, but I simply cannot explain what it was about being Jewish that promoted the hate that still exists worldwide against those of the Jewish culture. The Jews have never been warlike or dominating. The Jews have never required hand outs. The Jews seem to be a self reliant and productive culture; yet, the hate continues. That exists today, though the state of Israel is one of the closet and dependable allies the United States has. Until the world accepts this small culture of people as being those constituting a right and reasonable thinking people, anti-Semitism will continue unabated. Is there any hope for those of the Jewish culture, or will they remain the whipping people for all time? Sad!

Kevin H. Roberts
Kevin H. Roberts
6 years ago
Reply to  Dennis

Spot on!

JoeGoober
JoeGoober
6 years ago

Cute!!! It takes an extremist-Jewish lunatic to SPIN this against the media that is mostly owned by hardened Zionists Jews who are first and foremost Israeli/Jewish Firsters. Saying that there is lack in reporting antiSemitic incidents is like saying there is a lack of water in the oceans. If even a (non-Jewish) fart took place in or near a Jewish cemetery, temple or business we’d ALL hear about it for months on end. The whole political establishment condemned the “antisemitic” Jewish hoax calls at the EXACT time when 3 Muslim places of worship where burned down within 3 weeks and yet not a single condemnation from the establishment nor the media. Yet this extremist Jew wants to convince us that it is the other way around. Jews LIVE and THRIVE on perceived sympathy and victimhood status to push their agenda and collect American aid, and if the sympathy erodes due to lack of “antisemitic incidents” they simply FABRICATE IT! It is not the first nor the last, they (like the Mossad) conduct their affairs by way of DECEPTION!

Dennis
Dennis
6 years ago
Reply to  JoeGoober

Mr. Goober you are part of the worldwide problem that constitutes inane and unsupportable hate, and your commentary seems to suggest that you do not even recognize what you are. You are no different than those who promote and preach radical Islam, as your goal is the same as theirs: Domination and Subjugation. You are clearly a poisoned thinker, and although I respect your free speech right to express your venom, I, in expressing my own free speech, see you as a cancer on and in our society, and I would hope that right and reasonable people will also recognize that obvious fact. There are many harsh words to describe you, but I will avoid further commentary, and hope that some day you will save yourself and return to rational thinking.

JoeGoober
JoeGoober
6 years ago
Reply to  Dennis

And you my “friend” sound like you are either a member of the chosen racist elitist domineering tribal Jew Cult, or just a sorry excuse of a wasted brain. The Tribal Jewish cult dominates the West in PLAIN SIGHT and all you can do is attack Islam and Muslims who constitute no serious danger except in your CultistJewish brain washed mind.

Duchess of Pork
Duchess of Pork
6 years ago
Reply to  JoeGoober

A little test for your view that Jews live and thrive on perceived sympathy and victimhood status. New Zealand, where I live, has been reported as the target of a few of these threats. Please do a search on “Judeophobia in New Zealand” then one on “Islamophobia in New Zealand” and report back on your results. I can assure you that in this country, as in every other western liberal democracy the bleating, screeching and wailing over so-called Islamophobia outweighs every other phobia known to humankind.

JoeGoober
JoeGoober
6 years ago

First, it should indeed be Judeophobia not AntiSemitism. Because the great majority of today’s AshkeNAZI jews have NOTHING to do with Semitism, and the irony is that the Arabs their favorite target is the only true semites today. This shows you how you appropriate people’s culture, politics, land, media, and and and… If you search anywhere and compare Islamophobia and Antisemitism, you’ll find that there is little comparison. Because the only people who are constantly WAILING as they dominate you are the cultist Jews.

freepetta
freepetta
6 years ago

Self hating Jewish Lib.

unboundried
unboundried
6 years ago

The JCC threats were terrorism, but they were perpetrated by Israel as a false-flag operation. That doesn’t qualify as anti semitism. Although, it does support my assertion that being called anti semitic is as certain as death and taxes.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
6 years ago
Reply to  unboundried

No one was killed or injured pig of allah! No property was damaged. Go blow a camel 4 allah!

unboundried
unboundried
6 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

Have you ever noticed that if you just change your colorful Muslim references to Judaism references, you would sound just like a jihadi? This is just more proof that you are one in the same.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
6 years ago

Compared to most other Americans, young millennials (the most liberal and left-wing group) view the Jews least favorably and regard the Muslims most positively:
http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2017/02/14192637/PF_17.02.15_feelingThermometer_age640px.png

Scorpio
Scorpio
6 years ago

Imagine what the world would be like if patriotic, liberty-loving Jews and Christians voted for patriotic, America-loving politicians. We’d be an unbeatable force.

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