JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say they have arrested a 19-year-old Israeli Jewish man as the primary suspect in a string of bomb threats targeting Jewish community centers in the U.S.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Thursday the suspect’s motives are unclear.
Rosenfeld says the suspect is “the guy who was behind the JCC threats,” referring to Jewish community centers in the U.S. that have received dozens of anonymous threats in recent weeks.
Rosenfeld says the man, from the south of Israel, used advanced technologies to mask the origin of his calls and communications to synagogues, community buildings and public venues. He says the suspect also made threats in New Zealand and Australia.
He says the investigation was carried out with the help of the FBI and police from other countries.
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Oh shit.
Did he also tip over all the headstones and spray-paint all the synagogues?
Nice going, asshole. Now you’ve completely legitimized Trump’s absurd claim in the minds of millions.
Of course not, but now half the country—if not half the planet—thinks some other Jewish guy did. It’s hard enough already to get people to take anti-Semitism seriously; this fuckup has now made it that much more difficult. Right now Twitter is filled with Nazi cretins saying “See, I told you the Holocaust was all faked!”
I’m a touch skeptical. Wouldn’t be surprised if we found he was responsible for some bomb threats. But yeah, a mentally-ill teenage hacker in a another country sure does mean there’s no antisemitism over here.
Wasn’t someone else arrested previously for doing at least some of that defacement?