All 100 US senators sign a letter calling on the Donald Trump administration to address the dozens of bomb threats made against Jewish Community Centers across the United States.
The letter, written by Senators Gary Peters, Rob Portman, Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio, will be sent to US Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and FBI Director James Comey.
“These cowardly acts aim to create an atmosphere of fear and disrupt the important programs and services offered by JCCs to everyone in the communities they serve, including in our states,” the senators write in the letter.
“We are concerned that the number of incidents is accelerating and failure to address and deter these threats will place innocent people at risk and threaten the financial viability of JCCs, many of which are institutions in their communities,” the letter reads.
In the past two months, approximately 100 JCCs and Jewish day schools at 81 locations in 33 states had bomb scares. Threats were also made to two offices of the Anti-Defamation League. And at least three Jewish cemeteries have also been vandalized.
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