Back in February 2017, a number of Jewish community centers were targeted with bomb threats. The Intercept’s Zaid Jilani was on the case, pretty much blaming them on the far-right while ripping the Trump administration for failing to acknowledge far-right hate crimes.
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS across the United States are operating in a climate of fear after a fifth wave of bomb threats aimed at Jews on Monday that targeted at least 13 community centers and eight schools in a dozen states.
A top Trump surrogate — hedge funder Anthony Scaramucci, who fundraised for the Trump campaign, joined his transition team, and was in the running for a senior role in the White House — took to Twitter on Tuesday to imply that these threats could be coming from Democrats, rather than from a radical far-right wing that has been emboldened by Trump’s rhetoric and staff choices.
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Scaramucci’s tweets are only the latest sign that the Trump administration, those close to the president, and the wider Republican Party are fundamentally unwilling to either acknowledge or challenge the wave of far-right hate crimes in the United States that has in recent months targeted a wide set of religious and racial minority groups.
Today if you view that article, it has aged about as well as Roger Waters.
Actually, what the editor’s note should have stated was:
Since the publication of this article, former Intercept reporter Juan Thompson was arrested and charged with making some of the very same bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers and the Anti-Defamation League, to which this article was referring
For the record, Juan Thompson was not a White supremacist.
Hat tip: Adam Kredo
