COULD TRUMP HAVE BEEN… YOU
KNOW… ER, NOT WHOLLY WRONG?
MARCH 24, 2017 BY
MELANIE PHILLIPS
An 18 year-old
Jewish teenager, born in the US and living in the Israeli town of Ashkelon, has
been arrested on suspicion of issuing dozens of fake bomb and other threats to
Jewish communities in the US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand over a period
of six months.
The suspect reportedly used
very complex methods to prevent himself from being caught so that law
enforcement agencies had to use their own complex methods to find him.
This is a most
bizarre and disturbing development. Details of this young man, and of his
father who has also been arrested, are currently scarce. One can only speculate
therefore about the motive in this troubling case.
The significance of
this arrest, however, is rather broader. For President Donald Trump was accused
of antisemitism when, asked to comment about the wave of attacks said to be
taking place against Jewish targets across America, he reportedly replied: “Sometimes
it’s the reverse, to make people — or to make others — look bad.”
This was seized
upon as recycling the ancient antisemitic canard that the Jews fabricate
attacks upon themselves to gain the unwarranted sympathy of others. His remark
was held to be proof positive, therefore, that Donald Trump was an antisemite.
Yet now a Jew has
indeed been arrested for dozens of these threats. The only other person to have
been arrested in connection with these reported attacks is a black leftist.
These arrests still
leave open the question of who has been behind attacks on Jewish cemeteries in
America. But the claim that has been repeatedly made of an unprecedented
epidemic of antisemitic attacks – a claim already dismissed by the former head
of the Anti-Defamation League Abe Foxman, who said American Jews had previously
experienced worse – is now shown too be utterly untrue. And the associated
claim that this “epidemic” was provoked by Trump’s election because he himself
was giving oxygen to white supremacists and other antisemites is revealed as a
foul smear.
Full Article At: http://melaniephillips.com/trump-know-er-not-wholly-wrong/
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