Yesterday I asked who could be responsible for the wave of anti-Semitic threats and attacks in 2017. Today some light was shed following the arrest of former journalist Juan Thompson. Supporters of President Trump are having a field day. Thompson, a left-wing radical, used to write for Glenn Greenwald's The Intercept until he was fired for having faked his stories. The suspect was part of the media and has written fake news.
Of course, no one likes to be accused of anti-Semitism and it has been suggested that Trump's supporters are behind these threats as well as the desecration of several Jewish cemeteries. But Trump's supporters shouldn't gloat. Thompson is only believed to be responsible for a handful of these threats. The person and people responsible for nearly 100 other threats are still at large. Trump supporters should be more concerned about bringing the people responsible for this outrage to justice rather than lumping all who oppose them in with someone like Juan Thompson who appears to been motivated to do this after his girlfriend dumped him last summer. This guy appears to be a bonafide wacko.
While these threats appear to have been started overseas and are unlikely to have been committed by Trump supporters one cannot entirely rule out the possibility either given the President's popularity among white supremacists. Their laughter today might be short-lived.
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