Thursday, February 23, 2017

Cemetery outbreak 12-4

In a historic Jewish cemetery over 170 tombstones were knocked over and damaged. The vandalism was reported outside of St.Louis at a cemetery called Chesed Shel Emeth in University City, on a day that the White House denounced a spate of recent bomb threats against Jewish Community Center across the country. It upset many people for their families have all been buried there. The St. Louis Jewish community had received similar threats last month to the recent threats that appeared this Monday. From the start of the year through Monday over 69 bomb threats have been made to 54 Jewish centers in the United State and Canada. Trump addressed the issue on Tuesday saying "The anti-semitic threats targeting our Jewish community and community centers are horrible and are painful and a very sad reminder of the work that still must be done to root our hate and prejudice and evil." On Wednesday Vice President Mike Pence did visit the cemetery outside of St.Louis and conducted the most beautiful words that earned him a laudatory statement from the Anne Frank Center, "There is no place in America for hatred or acts of prejudice or violence or antisemitism. You just make us all proud." However many muslims did help raise over $60,000 to repair many of Jewish tombstones.

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