From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
ADL says it ‘will not be deterred’ by bomb threats
The head of the Anti-Defamation League calls on the government to take action against the more than 100 bomb threats that have been made to Jewish institutions in recent weeks.
Thus far today, 10 Jewish Community Centers, a Jewish school in Chicago and four ADL offices have received bomb threats.
“This is not ‘normal.’ We will not be deterred or intimidated,” ADL’s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, says in a statement. “It is time for action, and we call on the administration and Congress to take concrete steps to catch those threatening the Jewish community.”
We call on @POTUS to take concrete steps to catch those threatening the Jewish community: https://t.co/YeTIwvHmza pic.twitter.com/pt9NND9dLo
— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) March 7, 2017
The ADL says its national office on New York’s East Side, its office in Washington, DC, and its regional offices in Atlanta and Boston had been threatened.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says he has ordered state police to open an investigation into the bomb threats made against the ADL’s New York office and against community centers in the state.
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