The Anti-Defamation League called on Sunday for President Donald Trump’s administration to “do more than speak” against anti-Semitism after hundreds of headstones were overturned at a Jewish cemetery over the weekend.
“We call upon the White House to do more than speak words about anti-Semitism,” ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt wrote in a statement posted on Twitter. “We demand a plan of action.”
Our thoughts on the #cemetery desecration in #Philadelphia today, another disturbing example of rising #antisemitism that concerns us all pic.twitter.com/rVQGFkl7bp
— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) February 27, 2017
Dozens of headstones were vandalized at Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Philadelphia over the weekend. According to a report by WPVI, more than 500 headstones were overturned.
Philadelphia police called the damage to dozens of headstones an act of vandalism, but did not ascribe a specific cause.
More than 100 headstones were tipped over at a Jewish cemetery in Missouri last week, according to a report by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Police said they were investigating the vandalism at the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City, Missouri, but said there was “nothing to indicate it was any type of hate crime.”
Sorry, but a “plan of action” isn’t going to cut it. Suppose Trump tells the FBI to investigate. Suppose he says actions like this should be treated as hate crimes. Will that undo the dog whistles and subtle appeals to hate–not just for Jews, but for anyone who is not white and a particular kind of Christian (an un-Christian Christian)? No.
(And insensitive prosecutors will find reasons not to charge hate crimes, except in cases in which the perpetrators are some down-and-out fools with whom not even Trump’s hard-core supporters will sympathize.)
What’s needed here is a change of heart. Ain’t gonna happen.
Trump: Democrats should quit desecrating Jewish cemeteries. This is criminal. We have religious freedom in this country.
Put Steve Bannon in a sealed boxcar and send him to Auschwitz.
There’s a constructive start. Nothing like a little ironic vengeance to start the morning. Better than corn flakes!
Like asking Hitler for a list of his favorite knishes…
I’m surprised Spicer isn’t talking about the Jewish welfare queen mother who’s selling her food stamps to buy a Cadillac-priced headstone for her husband. Hey, it worked for Reagan.