New York – Hillary Clinton on Tuesday condemned a recent streak of “troubling” antisemitic incidents, and called for action first and foremost from US President Donald Trump.
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“JCC threats, cemetery desecration & online attacks are so troubling & they need to be stopped,” she wrote on Twitter. “Everyone must speak out, starting w/ @POTUS.”
Clinton, who ran as the Democratic candidate in the latest US presidential election, made the remarks a day after vandals damaged and knocked-over more than 100 headstones at a St. Louis-area Jewish cemetery.
Also on Monday, 11 Jewish community centers across the United States were targeted with false bomb threats, the fourth such wave of harassing phone calls in five weeks.
The White House responded to a reporter’s query about the latest string of bomb threats called in to Jewish community centers by saying “these actions are unacceptable.”
“Hatred and hate-motivated violence of any kind have no place in a country founded on the promise of individual freedom,” read a statement, attributed to White House press secretary Sean Spicer, that was shared Monday afternoon by NBC News correspondent Peter Alexander. “The President has made it abundantly clear that these actions are unacceptable.”
The statement did not specify that the threats targeted Jewish institutions, although it came in reply to a query about threats to JCCs.
Alexander posted Spicer’s response on Twitter, adding, “@PressSec responds to my request for comment about wave of threats to Jewish community centers.”
Separately, Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, who is Jewish, condemned the threats in a Tweet that pointed to the fact that the targets were Jewish.
“America is a nation built on the principle of religious tolerance,” she said. “We must protect our houses of worship & religious centers.” She ended the tweet with the hashtagged acronym for Jewish community center, “#JCC.”
Last week, President Donald Trump was asked during a news conference about the prior JCC bomb threats and what the government’s response would be to “an uptick in antisemitism.” Although the reporter did not suggest Trump was anti-Semitic, the president answered by denying he is an anti-Semite and called the question “insulting.”
Shortly afterward, various Jewish groups, including the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee, urged the White House to issue an unequivocal denunciation of the bomb threats and other antisemitic acts.
It’s all being instigated by the stupid liberal Democratic machine including Hillary and Obama , still can’t swallow their bitter defeat,
Stop with your nonsense and let the President work on issues not on putting out your fires,
If u are correct then will put him out in 4 yrs, now let him deliver and he will prove u wrong
(Already did it with defeating you)
Is she talking out of her prison cell, or she is still out?
Oh yeah, Hilary is a real Jew lover! Not….see huma abedin Y’s.
Hillary called an advisor of Bill Clinton, a “Jew Bas—d”, even though the guy was not technically Jewish, but had Jewish lineage. She was angry, when Clinton lost a Congressional election in Arkansas. To this day, both Clintons have never denied that Hillary made that ethnic slur.