JCCs to Sessions: We’re ‘frustrated’ with progress on bomb threats
(JTA) — Executives from 141 Jewish community centers signed a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions expressing frustration with efforts combating a rash of bomb threats.
The letter, sent Wednesday by the JCC Association of North America, the national organization of Jewish community centers, requested a meeting with Sessions and urged the Justice Department to do more to stop the threats.
Rukovodioci iz 141 židovske zajednice su potpisali pismo Jeffu Sessionu, u kojem su izrazili svoju frustraciju zbog napornih borbi sa velikim bombaškim prijetnjama . Pismo , koje je poslala JCC Association of North Amerika (nacionalna organizacija centara Židovskih zajednica) zahtijeva sastanak sa Sessionom i urgira da "Justice Department" nučini više kako bi se prijetnje zaustavile.U pismu se također odaje opriznanje lokalnim vlastima na odgovoru na incidente i opozdravlja osuda od strane Donalda Trampa. Mi smo još uvijek frustrarani zbog nedovoljnog naoretka u rješavanju situacije i inzistiramo da sve relevantne federalne ustanoive, uključujuči i vašu, upotrebe sve postojeće resurse da bi se identificirali i priveli pravvdi,počinioci koji su pokušali posijati anksioznost i strah u zajednice širom zemlje.
Više od 100 bombaških prijetlnji je od početka godine pogodilo JCC i druga židovska mjesta diljem zemlje, U posljednjem valu napada, u utorak i srijedu, napadnuto je 20 JCC, dnevnih školai ureda ADL ( Anti defamation League)
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The Department of Homeland Security has made its regional experts available to JCCs, and leaders of major Jewish groups met with FBI Director James Comey on March 3. Local JCC directors have repeatedly praised the response of area law enforcement.
“Local law enforcement have represented a beacon of responsiveness and professionalism as our communities have endured dozens of anti-Semitic threats in past weeks,” the letter said. “We respectfully ask that federal agencies, including your own, do the same.”
Authorities have yet to identify the person or people behind most of the threats. Juan Thompson, a St. Louis resident charged with making eight of the threats to avenge a former romantic partner, appears to have been a copycat.