"Jewish community centers across the nation are under siege as dozens received bomb threats this month ― including more than 20 reported on Wednesday alone."
My sister works at one of those JCCs that received a bomb threat today.
I know the article quotes Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office Captain Mike Hartzler as saying that "There’s no apparent motive and no immediate danger"; and I know our own [MENTION=266]Hawk[/MENTION] has assured me that the racially-premised and nakedly anti-semitic elements of Trump's constituency, and the alt-right at large, represent a fringe minority. Nevertheless, the fact that the ADL (a flawed organization, but one that is certainly keeping tabs on this score) has noted "a spike in hate incidents post-election and a series of bomb threats targeting the Jewish community over the past couple weeks" is both discouraging and, to my mind, difficult to divorce from the President-elect's ascendance—given the gleefully vociferous (if otherwise marginal) anti-semitism of a component of the latter's base, and the fact that—intentional or not—his success lends cover and credibility to any actual, hateful activities that might derive from this type of heretofore-only-vocalized sentiment.
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