Washington – Armed guards should be posted at every synagogue, Jewish school and Jewish community center across the United States, the country’s anti-Semitism envoy said.
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“We live in a time of danger,” Elan Carr said during an interview Wednesday at the Global Coalition 4 Israel Conference. “Any synagogue, every JCC, should have guards. God willing, may they never be needed, but they should be there.”
Carr was interviewed live on stage by Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Yaakov Katz.
Carr, 50, a Hebrew-speaking former Los Angeles prosecutor and a U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq, was appointed in February to be the State Department’s envoy for anti-Semitism, filling a post that sat empty for two years despite protests from lawmakers and Jewish groups. The position, most recently held by Ira Forman under President Barack Obama, has existed since 2004.
Carr told the audience that President Donald Trump is fully committed to fighting antisemitism in the U.S. and around the world, according to the Jerusalem Post.
“The rhetoric of the president couldn’t be clearer. Every time the president speaks on this issue, he calls it [antisemitism] a vile poison that must be rooted out,” Carr said. He added that Trump has explicitly stated that “if you go after the Jews, we’re coming after you.”
He said the battle against anti-Semitism must be “a joint bipartisan fight.”
“All decent people – Jewish and not Jewish – need to do it together. I don’t care what ideological clothing it wears, Jew hatred is Jew hatred, we need to fight it and oppose it and that’s got to be the message,” he said.
Beeny (d’rabonun) yes, payos (deohrysoh) no?
I’ve said for years that armed guards need not only to be posted at every Jewish institution in the USA (the Federations could pay for the security as they raise billions, and sent millions overseas), including Shuls, JCCs, Federations, Jewish Camps, Israel Bond Offices, Day Schools, Yeshivahs, Chabad, etc. In addition, armed guards and metal detectors must be installed in every elementary school, middle school, and high school in the USA. There must be an end to school shootings. They don’t exist in EY.
Nothing wrong with hiring armed guards if you want to.
Posting armed guards is like wearing a bulletproof vest, it doesn’t solve the problem. The problem is that the Jews have to realize that they must leave because their sojourn in America is over. G-D gave us a country—so come home already. It’a not going to get any better for the Jews in America, you’re in a downward spiral, get out while you can.